United StatesKodelife is a real-time GPU shader editor, live-code performance tool and graphics prototyping sketchpad. Lightweight App, Heavyweight Power KodeLife gives you 100% native real-time control over your GPU's power with one lightweight app. Real-time Live-Coding Code is checked, evaluated and updated in the background as you type! Quick prototyping of visual effects without having to wait for compilation. Plug and Play Use your device's audio input and all available MIDI connections or connect a gamepad to drive your visuals. Support for external keyboards, mice and trackpads. Multilingual KodeLife supports all supported flavors of OpenGL GLSL, as well as the Metal Shading Language. Cross-platform Support Take your ideas with you! Exchange your projects with KodeLife running on other platforms. Also available on macOS, Windows and Linux.
Still the best visuals app on iOS
Would love to see a better files integration with the possibility to search files trough directory hierarchies.
United StatesFavorite app for live visuals
This app is amazing for live visuals. Is so convenient being able to use an iOS device for profesional looking visuals. The learning curve is a bit steep, but once you get the basics is pretty cool what you can do with this app. I would love to see integration of live video inputs (such as the device camera) and easier midi mapping of the parameters.
United StatesGreat app, needs a few tweaks to be perfect
I'm using Kodelife a lot, it's a great prototyping tool, and a good alternative to just use shadertoy in a browser. There's a couple of features missing, though, and a few usability rough edges: - no support for float or half textures/render target; this is super important for GPGPU that is not just instagram-like filters and something that would be needed in order to be actually compatible with shadertoy. - if you have a lot of passes, you can't currently reorder them (or at least I did not find how) and have to resort to workarounds that make everything less understandable - can you even search/replace in your code? - going forth and back to/from other editors, it's super annoying that this seems to be the only one not supporting scrolling by just dragging the text - you have to find the small trackbar on the side, which is way to close to the app separator when multitasking on iPad pro - when working on a file for some time, if you save multiple times, sometimes the original filename is lost and replaced with the default :you have to specify the file name again and override it, and if you have a lot of them it is super error-prone I still think this is a great app, but it could be perfect with a some ironing :)
United StatesShaders on the Go
My favorite platform for code sketching. Best of all, it wonderfully integrates with the phone’s photography and video so real world textures can be brought in seamlessly. Has a customizable code editor too so you can made the coding fit your needs. Wish there were compute shader examples, code includes, and custom texture formats (mostly for HDR), but these are super power user features. For the most of us, KodeLife is the way to go.
United StatesGreat App for Glitch Art
If you are into shader art then this is the app for you! I have been following this app since the developers started letting folks test it!
United StatesStill have to explore further but this looks amazing already.
I do have one request especially considering your apparent interest in music production (TouchOSC), it would be great if Imaginando and you guys could work together so that shaders created in Kodelife can be imported into Visual Synthesizer by Imaginando. Otherwise, an AUv3 implementation - even if can only run shaders in this mode and not create them - would be tremendously appreciated - although I have no idea how doable this might be.
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- Fixed document corruption when pasting certain characters - Updated game controller mapping database - Minor bug fixes and improvements
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