delete_shader(3)

okay bestie, welcome to the Arcan Lua API manual page for delete_shader(3) — manual name folded in near the top instead of copied as a header line, because we’re cute like that 💅✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

delete_shader — deallocate the resources tied to a shid 🧚

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

The synopsis is literally just these two lines, no cap:

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delete_shader( shid )

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so shaders themselves don’t cost much in terms of dynamic resources — we’re talking kilobytes of data here, lowkey tiny 🍓. But over time, uniform groups and similar side features may eventually saturate some resources 😭. That’s exactly what this is for: delete_shader can be used to discard shader related resources. Slay 💅.

Important vibe check: using this on a shid that is already bound will cause owning objects to fall back to the default ones 💀. So maybe know your binding situation first, bestie.

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• vidsys

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That’s the whole page, bestie 🫶. Source/version is vidsys, and it’s dated October 2026 — catch you in the group chat 💖🎀