Shaders question regarding Torque3D

#1
Yes, Torque 3D allows the use of custom shaders through CustomMaterials. These must be set up in script, though, and require a certain level of expertise.

I'm not quite sure what you mean with "supports assembling shaders". Do you mean something like a node-based material editor that then hands of the graphs for the engine to generate shaders from? If so, while Torque does not use node networks to assemble shaders, it has a configurable Material interface from which then shaders are generated dynamically by the engine.

#2 Thanks for replying.I usually compile (using fxc) hlsl to assembly so I am wondering if Torque can read asm file.

#3 Torque reads standard HLSL or GLSL. Shaders are saved in a file with a .hlsl or .glsl extension, which contain the raw shader code in them. I don't think it can read shaders compiled into assembly.

#4 There is support for reading an already assembled shader deep in the bowels of the engine... i think it was there for xbox support at one point.

Anyway... it may or may not fit your needs. Be prepared to modifiy the source if you need something different.