Shaders 101

Nehrak · 10-02-2008, 12:33 PM

Put simply I want to get into shaders (beginning and advanced; keeping it to DirectX 9 for now). I could use a few good sources and/or tutorials, online or not. I looked through DirectXTutorials.com but some of the topics I wanted to cover were premium-only/$25 to view, so I said fuck that.

Suggestions?

EDIT - I suppose I should mention that I wanted to just start with HLSL and go from there. Someone told me ATI has a nice tool for doing shader effect files (syntax checking, "previewing", things like that), but they never said exactly what it was...

Throag · 10-03-2008, 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Nehrak

Put simply I want to get into shaders (beginning and advanced; keeping it to DirectX 9 for now). I could use a few good sources and/or tutorials, online or not. I looked through DirectXTutorials.com but some of the topics I wanted to cover were premium-only/$25 to view, so I said fuck that.

Suggestions?

EDIT - I suppose I should mention that I wanted to just start with HLSL and go from there. Someone told me ATI has a nice tool for doing shader effect files (syntax checking, "previewing", things like that), but they never said exactly what it was...

Ati has RenderMonkey and Nvidia has FXComposer.
ShaderX are good books for shader developement but you will either have to buy them are pirate them.

Nehrak · 10-03-2008, 03:41 PM

I'd rather use the school library which has quite a few of them.

Thanks.

10-02-2008, 12:33 PM	#1 (permalink)
Nehrak It just don't mean a thing. Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Home Posts: 1,118	Shaders 101 Put simply I want to get into shaders (beginning and advanced; keeping it to DirectX 9 for now). I could use a few good sources and/or tutorials, online or not. I looked through DirectXTutorials.com but some of the topics I wanted to cover were premium-only/$25 to view, so I said fuck that. Suggestions? EDIT - I suppose I should mention that I wanted to just start with HLSL and go from there. Someone told me ATI has a nice tool for doing shader effect files (syntax checking, "previewing", things like that), but they never said exactly what it was...

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10-03-2008, 03:41 PM	#3 (permalink)
Nehrak It just don't mean a thing. Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Home Posts: 1,118	I'd rather use the school library which has quite a few of them. Thanks.