nVidia Cg Language..

#1 Melv! :)
I just saw this too, amazing isn't it?
I need to pray for my geforce4 to arrive though :\

#2 Melv back to work..

/me cracks the whip

HA, just kidding.
Havn't seen you post in awhile.

#3 Yeah,

You're correct, it was a work posting!!! :)

I'm just coming out of a busy period with work and I'm hoping I can get back to it asap.

I've downloaded this stuff and it's very powerful. I'm gonna spend this evening going through it.

- Melv.

#4 Oh yeah,

This thing is the business ....

OpenGL / DirectX support at the flick of a profile, precompiled, runtime compiled vertex / fragment shaders, C like code, cross-platform.

nVidia only at the moment though. 8(

This is the start of something beautiful. 8)

- Melv.

#5 Very interesting!! I think this could be a nice step for improving game graphics. I wonder what increase in overhead there will be in comparison to asm.

Seem's like this could bring shaders to the grasp of independent game developer's without a major increase team size or development time.

--Aaron

#6 Have you, any chance, tried to add this to your fxRenderObject?

-- Adrian

#7 Downloading now, just might have to get a GF4 card after all.

#8 Adrian,

It wouldn't get added to a specific object but would be a core part of the engine itself and objects such as this would utilise it's functionality.

I've not done any work in the area of shaders in Torque lately though. I *have* been thrasing Cg and I must say that I like it very much.

The DirectX side of things is a bitch but that just because DirectX is ... well ... a bitch (powerful but messy and awkward). The OpenGL side is much better but fragment support is only just coming along now.

- Melv.