Shader tutorial

[taj]

http://nehe.gamedev.net/data/articles/article.asp?article=21

I think its better than I can write Rbraz and is really pretty complete...it wont teach you what to put inside a shader but then again, thats pure graphics knowledge so I doubt anyone can teach that in a tutorial. I wait for the day Shockie starts coding shaders and relaises he can now do tunnels, particles, rubbers etc in shaders@10x resolution and 20x speed ;-)

[Shockwave]

Interesting.

I remember you wrote a post before about the similarities of software rendering and shader language, I've scanned briefly through that tutorial there, but as I am still very much Learning C++, I guess that this is something for the future for me.

Rbraz will probably do something with it long before I do.

I am thinking that I might go into hardware coding soon, for me though the main priority is learning to use C++, the rest will have to come in the following months

[ninogenio]

just to add to this nividas cg launguge looks pretty good basically its a development eviroment just for shaders, it comes with a compiler and everything needed to spit out shader programs for either opengl or directx. although as to whether its better than glsl or not im not sure as i havent tryed it out.

[Rbz]

Sir Chris,

That's a good article about ogl shaders, I'm still reading a book about shaders, so far I'm able to understand how they work in the graphics pipeline. Just need to learn which commands to use and how to use it 

For us accustomed with pixel "buffers", shaders are really hard to understand (IMHO), because it's another approach to work with graphics.

I'm still shocked  with those latest 1k using shaders, I need make my way to enter this group 

[ferris]

Thanks a hell of alot for sharing this link!