Contents
Foreword .......................................xvi
Acknowledgments..................................xvii
Part 1: Introduction to Shader Programming
Fundamentals of Vertex Shaders ...........................4
Wolfgang F. Engel
What You Need to Know/Equipment .........................5
Vertex Shaders in the Pipeline .............................5
Why Use Vertex Shaders? ...............................7
Vertex Shader Tools ..................................8
NVIDIA Effects Browser 2/3 ..........................8
NVIDIA Shader Debugger ...........................9
Shader City ...................................10
Vertex Shader Assembler............................10
NVIDIA NVASM — Vertex and Pixel Shader Macro Assembler ....10
Microsoft Vertex Shader Assembler ...................11
Shader Studio ..................................11
NVLink 2.x ...................................12
NVIDIA Photoshop Plug-ins..........................13
Diffusion Cubemap Tool ............................14
DLL Detective with Direct3D Plug-in.....................15
3D Studio Max 4.x/gmax 1.1..........................16
Vertex Shader Architecture ..............................16
High-Level View of Vertex Shader Programming ..................18
Check for Vertex Shader Support .......................19
Vertex Shader Declaration ...........................19
Set the Vertex Shader Constant Registers ...................22
Write and Compile a Vertex Shader ......................22
Application Hints .............................26
Complex Instructions in the Vertex Shader................27
Putting It All Together ..........................27
Swizzling and Masking ..........................31
Guidelines for Writing Vertex Shaders ..................32
Compiling a Vertex Shader ........................33
Create a Vertex Shader .............................34
Set a Vertex Shader ...............................34
Free Vertex Shader Resources .........................35
Summary ....................................35
What Happens Next? .................................35
iii
评论1