al_set_shader_float(3)

💅 al_set_shader_float(3) — bestie edition ✨

okay so this one’s from the Library Functions Manual, and it’s part of the Allegro 5 API 🌸. Meet al_set_shader_float(3), the lil function that handles a float uniform situation. Yes queen, we’re getting into shader values.

🌸 NAME 🌸

al_set_shader_float — Allegro 5 API 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

bool al_set_shader_float(const char *name, float f)

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

This sets a float uniform of the target bitmap’s shader. That’s the whole vibe: you pass a name and a float f, and it goes looking for that uniform on the shader attached to the target bitmap.

It returns true on success 🎀. Otherwise it returns false — for example, if the uniform with that name does not exist in the shader 😭. So yeah, false is your “bestie, that name was not found” signal in that case.

🦋 SINCE 🦋

5.1.0 — iconic since then, no cap ⭐

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• al_use_shader(3) — go peek at this one too 🫶

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💖 Sign-off tea: source/version: the Allegro reference manual; date: not printed on this page, bestie. al_set_shader_float(3) out. 🎀