Overview

Welcome to the Visionary Render Programming Guide! This guide will teach you how to interact with Visionary Render by writing code. It covers the following topics:

• Scripts

• Plugins

• Shaders

Structure

This guide serves as both a user manual and reference manual. It has the following sections:

• User Manual

  • Getting Started - describes basic topics like using the script editor and creating a plugin.

  • Architecture - documents the API data structures and includes a diagram of the various systems.

  • Best Practices - outlines some best practices for working with the API.

  • How To - provides tutorials and code samples for implementing Lua scripts and plugins.

  • Advanced Topics - describes advanced topics like semantics and coroutines.

• Reference Manual

  • Changelog - lists the changes made to the API between different software versions.

  • Contents - lists the contents of the guide with brief descriptions of each page.

  • API - lists the functions provided by the API, grouped by category.