Both 1 and 4 made me think about a different game, FS19, that uses GLSL based shaders and an addon can include their own shader code, as the base shaders come with ‘injection points’ for that, to completely manipulate vertex and fragment shader behavior. It is used for reflectors, and wet surfaces there among other things too.

Afaik, for Vulkan, a similar technique could work allowing addon devs to include SPIR-V code (bytecode that can be compiled from GLSL) to modify shader behavior in a much more low level, but supported way down the line, as opposed as through some ‘keep your hands off me’ internal art datarefs alone.

I hope LR will consider such an extension point down the line. Even though increasing any public surface also restricts how much room for change you have internally, I hope that when the shaders codebase stabilises over time, such a thing would be possible.

I have tried Mesa RADV, AMDVLK open and propertiary AMDVLK from AMDGPU-PRO, all with same result, crash on startup.

With privative drivers (amdgpu-pro) all worked ok for me (Ubuntu 20.04). There are problems with open drivers.

Thank you very much!

I figured that it’s safe to ignore, but it’s likely better to change that in a future scenery update so people don’t complain that “it’s not Vulkan compatible”. 🙂

remove BLEND_GLASS

Or ignore it – it’s relatively harmless, just not legal.