I am implementing a deferred rendering framework, and I wanted to allow programmers to write custom materials.However, I did not find yet how to handle different materials.For now, a material is just a set of uniforms for me.
I wanted to write the material ID in the GBuffer, however, I don't see the point of doing it as the lightning pass is using the same shader for every fragment (obviously).
In the frosbite paper (page 15), they explain they use a Material ID and a MatDat parameter, but I did not really get what it can be and how they handle it during the lightning pass.
Is the material ID used in a simple branching condition? In this case, when a new material is created, do I have to rebuild the lightning pass uber shader by adding this branching and the code to execute?
UE4 seems to build GLSL code from the material editor, which is not something hard, but how do they handle it with the deferred renderer?Do they only plug the GLSL code into the Uber Shader?
