Full Screen Shaders + Manager in TGEA 1.8.1

Hi everyone,

If you would please refer back to my old post here, you'll see that I posted a fix to a fix of a 1.7 resource. This resource provides full screen shaders.

However it only provides two hard-coded shaders: "nightVision" and "heatVision". Not liking this, I continued to create a Shader Pool Manager.

Instead of having everyone refer back to the billion resources and keep fixing eachother, I'll just post the final code right here. This code replaces your gameTSCtrl.cpp and gameTSCtrl.h files in the T3D folder of your engine directory.

For clarity sake, I removed all old code. However I do want to mention that this was possible due to decryptoid and Siddartha. Thanks guys!

If you wish to review the old code, please refer back to my old post where you'll find links to the older resources.

Usage
1. First define a shader like you normally would. This shader should contain post-processing effects.
2. Then use the following to activate or just load the shader into memory:

// DEFINITION
loadEffectByName(String shaderName, bool activateShader);

// USAGE
PlayGui.loadEffectByName("shaderName", true); // This both loads the shader into memory and activates it.
PlayGui.loadEffectByName("shaderName", false); // This just loads the shader into memory, but doesn't activate it.

When calling the same shader name twice or more, it'll just look up the ShaderData in the shader pool, instead of define a new one. So in other words, you can use this function to init all your shaders or to activate them right away!

Code Files
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Additional Functionality
Silly me, I forgot to add a disableEffect() function.

Add the following static function to the gameTSCtrl.cpp file:

static void DisableEffect(SimObject* obj, S32, const char** argv)
{
	GameTSCtrl *ctrl	= static_cast<GameTSCtrl*>(obj);

	// do we have an active effect?
	ctrl->effectMode = -1;
}

Now add the following console function entry to the gameTSCtrl::consoleInit() function:

Con::addCommand("GameTSCtrl", "disableEffect",		DisableEffect,		"GameTSCtrl.disableEffect()",			2, 2);

This will disable the current active effect. You may also remove the old functions, I did. All you really need are these two.