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Shader Based Rendering

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Started by KSP November 23, 2007 02:28 AM

3 comments, last by superpig 16 years, 5 months ago

KSP

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November 23, 2007 02:28 AM

Hi everyone, Do you know what is shader-based rendering (like what's in Source engine)? Could you give me some resources so I can start studying this king of rendering engine? Yours, KSP

superpig

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November 23, 2007 03:04 AM

All modern commercial engines are shader-based, really. The Wikipedia page isn't a bad place to start.

Richard "Superpig" Fine - saving pigs from untimely fates - Microsoft DirectX MVP 2006/2007/2008/2009
"Shaders are not meant to do everything. Of course you can try to use it for everything, but it's like playing football using cabbage." - MickeyMouse

KSP

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November 23, 2007 12:56 PM

Hi,
Thanks for the link. But I'm sorry that I didn't ask what I meant correctly. What I want to ask is that how the graphics engine is designed? For example, does it mean that every object should be rendered using a pixel shader, vertex shader and probably geometry shader?

Yours,
KSP

rollo

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November 23, 2007 01:22 PM

Yes

superpig

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November 23, 2007 09:20 PM

Yes. There isn't really another way, these days - even if you use the fixed function pipeline, the card will emulate it using a shader.

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