GLSL Converter

Extract text from GLSL files


Drop or upload your .GLSL file
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How to extract text from your GLSL file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your GLSL file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert GLSL to another file type

To convert your GLSL file to another format, you need Visual Studio Code or other Developer software.

  • GLSL to HLSL
  • GLSL to OSL
  • GLSL to OBJ
  • GLSL to FBX
  • GLSL to DAE
  • GLSL to 3DS
  • GLSL to MAX
  • GLSL to BLEND
  • GLSL to MA
  • GLSL to MB
  • GLSL to C4D
  • GLSL to STL

Convert a file to GLSL

To convert other file formats to the "Graphics Shader Source" file type, you need software like Visual Studio Code or a similar tool.

  • DWG to GLSL
  • DAE to GLSL
  • X3D to GLSL
  • IGES to GLSL
  • WRL to GLSL
  • JT to GLSL
  • SKP to GLSL
  • 3DS to GLSL
  • 3DM to GLSL
  • OBJ to GLSL
  • STEP to GLSL
  • FBX to GLSL

About GLSL files

A .GLSL file contains source code written in the OpenGL Shading Language, a high-level C-style language used to program the graphics pipeline (vertex, fragment, geometry shaders) on GPUs. While these files are standard text, they are useless to the average user without a host application to compile and execute them. A major difficulty is that .GLSL files do not contain the 3D model or the rendered image itself - they only contain the instructions for how light and texture should behave on a surface. Furthermore, .GLSL is specific to the OpenGL ecosystem; it is not natively compatible with Microsoft DirectX (which uses HLSL) or Apple Metal (which uses MSL), creating significant portability headaches for developers.

To make this code useful across different platforms or for documentation, conversion is often necessary. For cross-platform development (like bringing an OpenGL game to Vulkan), developers convert .GLSL to SPV (SPIR-V binary) or transpile it to HLSL. For archiving, code review, or sharing with non-developers, converting the raw source code to PDF or formatted HTML preserves syntax highlighting without requiring a code editor.

Convert.Guru analyzes your GLSL file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted GLSLP, HLSL, VSH, SHADER, TXT, FSH, FRAG, JSON, BIN, ZIP and OSL files.



The GLSL Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our GLSL converter.