Getting Started

The best way to learn about Shady is to use our Example Scripts as interactive tutorials. The best one to start with is python -m Shady demo showcase. Others can be listed with python -m Shady list. The topics below go into more detail about the different ways of starting Shady:

• Creating a World
  • Running single-threaded
  • Running the Shady engine in a background thread (Windows only)
  • Multi-threaded operation on non-Windows platforms
  • Limitations on multi-threaded performance in Python
• Command-Line Options
• Example Scripts
  • List of examples