Free PDF of ShaderX2 books

[Michael Hartlef]

Hi folks,

I found this blog entry of the GarageGames community. There are new PDFs availabel from some SHADERX2 books:

http://www.garagegames.com/blogs/16732/15071

Cheers
Michael

[Petr Schreiber]

Good find Mike!,

very nice books :) Although just for Direct3D, the shaders use HLSL syntax, which is similar to GLSL, and there are HLSL-to-GLSL autoconverters as well.

So great reading, doesn't matter if using DX and/or OGL.


Thanks,
Petr

[kryton9]

No wonder shaders confuse me, they are different for the two api's... yikes!

Thanks for the find Mike!

[Petr Schreiber]

... and can have different syntax even inside each API, hehe.

NVIDIA tries to bridge this with the CG shading language, which is the same for D3D and OGL.


Petr

[kryton9]

Petr, so a good way to start with all of this would be with the cg, thanks for the tip!