Creating shaders with the Shader Creation dialog

In this recipe, we take a look at the new Shader Creation dialog and the options you can select when you create shaders in Godot 4 such as Spatial, Canvas Item, Particles, Sky, and Fog.

Getting ready

For this recipe, open Godot 4 and start a new project called Chapter 5. In the Scene tab, click 3D to add a 3D scene. Click on Scene in the main menu next to Project, then select Save Scene As, and name it Creationdialog.

How to do it…

Let’s add a PlaneMesh to the scene and then add a new ShaderMaterial in the Material property where we can create a shader and see the new Shader Creation dialog:

1. Left-click on the Node3D node and then press the + sign in the Scene tab. In the Create New Node window, type mesh in the Search box and then select MeshInstance3D to create the node in the scene.
2. In the Inspector, click on <empty> to the right of the mesh and select New PlaneMesh.
3. Left-click on the...