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Rendermonkey / FX Composer to hlsl tips.

by Andrew Edmonds · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 04/02/2007 (3:11 am) · 6 replies

Hi all,

I have the full screen shader resource working great and want to start to play with some different full screen effects. I know the best way will be to learn hlsl which I will do but right now I'm concentrating on other stuff and am just after a 'quick fix' :o)

Has anyone had any success in converting FX Composer and / or RenderMonkey shaders to xxxxP.hlsl and xxxxV.hlsl files for full screen use?

Thanks...
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    Torque Owner Bobby Leighton
    Imagn' Games
    #1
    04/02/2007 (7:12 am)
    There is a resource that demonstrates moving the shade-rs from Render-monkey. They are both in HLSL, but there is just a few things to change when tying them in.

    Torque Owner Andrew Edmonds
    EiKON Games
    #2
    04/02/2007 (8:24 am)
    Hi Bobby - thanks. I guess you mean this one.

    I had actually already looked at this but didn't read it all the way through. Note to self: READ MORE!!

    I'll follow it through properly tonight and see how it goes.

    Thanks!

    Torque Owner Andrew Edmonds
    EiKON Games
    #3
    04/02/2007 (9:30 am)
    Looks like there's going to be a lot of trial and error here :o)

    Can I change and reload shader data in-game without having to restart the engine?

    Torque Owner Bobby Leighton
    Imagn' Games
    #4
    04/03/2007 (11:15 pm)
    No each time your start TGEA it compiles your shaders, out of the box. Now that i think about it there might be a resource to change shaders at runtime, ill look and post if i find it, but even so it wouldn't be too hard to add. And as far as trial and error goes, take a look in shdrConsts.h and in the atlas folder there is also the atlas.h file has a lot of the specific that are used in the atlas shaders. Good luck!!:)

    Torque 3D Owner J.C. Smith
    #5
    04/03/2007 (11:43 pm)
    I do think there is a way to do it manually by using the initmaterials and reloadmaterials by console but I'm honestly not sure if that is stock or using a user-submitted resource.

    Torque Owner Andrew Edmonds
    EiKON Games
    #6
    04/04/2007 (12:04 am)
    Excellent - thanks for the replies all. I had a flick through a book a bought a while ago on DirectX9 programming (here) that I've never really properly looked at since I bought it and discovered it has quite a nice section on HLSL. I read the first few HLSL chapters last night and already things make a bit more sense.

    @Bobby - yeah, I guess the shdrConsts.h file defines the constants that I need to use in my shaders files? I'll have a play around with it tonight.