[C++][DX9c] Advancing shader development
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I'm still writing HLSL in text files and repeating myself often. I want to move on, but like always, there is no "Go This Way" in the D3D documentation or Google.
What is a good reference for a shader novice to advance to compiling effects to files and making reusable shader code?
Not sure of any good references. But what I do for common code is just like you would in C/C++. I simply use #include to include common functions and variables. I also use #ifdef/#endif/#define to specify what I want to use from a header - because not all shaders will want all common functions when being compiled.
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Nice. What about compiling shaders for later use? Custom data is also a factor here, since I have seen modern games with "shader" directories with extensions I do not recognize.
I haven't really found the need to compile any of my shaders so I can't really say on that one. I leave them in straight HLSL. The extensions might just be a way of organising different fragments but could all be the same format if viewed in text editor. If not then I'm not sure, I use the extension .fxh for my effect headers. I have seen extensions of vsh and psh for vertex and pixel shaders.
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Thank you for the useful info! Someone elsewhere told me to look into ID3DXEffectCompiler, so I'll be going into that.
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