Need help writing custom plugins for Blender Malt

[master-wayne]

Hello!
I am new to Blender Malt and getting myself acquainted with writing simple custom glsl shaders. My issue is similar to the one mentioned here.
I cannot get the instance_random_color() function to show as node in the Malt Node Tree. I have setup the global Plugins folder as mentioned in the thread and placed the PluginExample.glsl file directly under it.

Here are the steps that I have tried:

1. Define Global Malt Plugin directory:
   ......Blender/blender-3.4.1-windows-x64/Malt/

2. Download the sample PluginExample.glsl from here: [PluginExample/Shaders]
   (https://github.com/bnpr/Malt/tree/Development/plugins/PluginExample/Shaders)

3. Paste the sample file under Global Malt Plugin directory.

4. Restart Blender / Reaload Malt pipeline from Pipeline settings.

I have gone through the online documentation and various support threads here but could not find a solution. My ultimate goal is to write a custom node to perform Stencil Testing to hide parts of a character's hair but it seems it is not possible with the nodes currently available in the Malt Node Tree.

[pragma37]

The plugin is the whole PluginExample folder, not just the PluginExample.glsl file.
So you need to drop the Plugins Example folder into your plugin directory.

As a side note, I would move the Global Plugin directory outside your Blender installation, so you don't accidentally delete it when installing a new Blender version.

[master-wayne]

Hi
Thanks, that worked!

Also thanks for pointing out the location of the Plugin directory, I will change it accordingly.