Shaders 101
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Are there any good web pages/articles where i might i get no information you benefitted from learning about shaders, how and why to write them, and which language I should use for different purposes. Thankyou.
Red Sodium
My favorite IDE will support GLSL soon, it supports HLSL right now.
I think this will be a good start, they have LOTS AND LOTS of samples. Most of the samples will work with Geforce FX (but not all). All the demos will run on ATi (dx9 cards).
It's pretty easy to create your own stuff too.I think this had a decent intro
If you want more reason on why you should learn shaders, read this (or atleast look at the pictures)
http://www.ati.com/developer/gdc/D3DTutorial10_Half-Life2_Shading.pdf
[edited by - ngill on May 26, 2004 10:47:30 AM]
I think this will be a good start, they have LOTS AND LOTS of samples. Most of the samples will work with Geforce FX (but not all). All the demos will run on ATi (dx9 cards).
It's pretty easy to create your own stuff too.I think this had a decent intro
If you want more reason on why you should learn shaders, read this (or atleast look at the pictures)
http://www.ati.com/developer/gdc/D3DTutorial10_Half-Life2_Shading.pdf
[edited by - ngill on May 26, 2004 10:47:30 AM]
quote:Original post by _DarkWIng_
You should never let your fears become the boundaries of your dreams.
LMAO.
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The Orange book?
By the way, are all shaders uniform in their minimum specifications, etc (like, needing a certain level of graphics card) and just use different languages to achieve the same purpose?
Dowloading the CG toolkit now and also FX composer. Are these recommended? I''ve also been reading through articles but this is mostly on the theory and techniques. I also want to check with you guys that Cg indeed works on other card brands than nVidia
Red Sodium
By the way, are all shaders uniform in their minimum specifications, etc (like, needing a certain level of graphics card) and just use different languages to achieve the same purpose?
Dowloading the CG toolkit now and also FX composer. Are these recommended? I''ve also been reading through articles but this is mostly on the theory and techniques. I also want to check with you guys that Cg indeed works on other card brands than nVidia
Red Sodium
I use Cg on 2 commecial game projects and it works fine even on ATI. Anyway, drivers have their own post compiler that compiles the shaders asm into machine code. So it is hard to output "unoptimizable code" from a shader compiler, since the driver compiler will eventually solve that (some people are paid fulltime doing this).
take a look at the extended interface demos with source in the nvidia Cg toolkit.
Anyway you go, keep in mind that hight level shaders languages are the way to go.
take a look at the extended interface demos with source in the nvidia Cg toolkit.
Anyway you go, keep in mind that hight level shaders languages are the way to go.
quote:Original post by Pipo DeClownquote:Original post by _DarkWIng_
You should never let your fears become the boundaries of your dreams.
LMAO.
Did you see where the hyperlink links to?
You should never let your fears become the boundaries of your dreams.
quote:Original post by red_sodium
The Orange book?
The Orange Book aka OpenGL Shading Language Book, granted no use if you want to learn Cg or HLSL for DX, but its what i''ve learnt with
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