Some shaders links

Post by **tuan kuranes** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 11:19 am

As I didn't see a repository of what can be achieve with shaders
I was thinking that I could share some good source code links about shaders, apart from nvidia cg browser or ati sdk :

http://frustum.org/3d/
http://esprit.campus.luth.se/~humus/3D/

Not to mention the "far cry" demo with some impressive shaders in it...

Post by **sinbad** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 1:17 am

Quality links, thanks.

Post by **tuan kuranes** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 2:47 pm

It's Delphi site,
but easy to read as it is opengl calls and often cg...

- Interesting shaders :

depth of field, convolve, non-photo-realistic, cartoon, deferred, shadows, animation interpolation, billboards alignments, self-shadowing bumpmaps, depth peeling, dual paraboloid shadow mapping, image postprocess...

- Some non-shaders demo also interesting as :

hardware occlusion queries for very huge model rendering

Nice papers :

- deferred shading, terrain texturing, impostors...

Post by **tuan kuranes** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 11:35 am

Nvidia just put another shader editor with some sample shaders

Very nice fire, water and refraction.

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/fx_c ... ome.html#2

Post by **:wumpus:** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:19 pm

Yeah the frustum demos are sooooo *wow*

Post by **tuan kuranes** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 9:43 am

just seen that i've forgotten to post the delphi3d site URL :

http://www.delphi3d.net/index.php

Post by **Guest** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 11:21 pm

tuan kuranes wrote:Nvidia just put another shader editor with some sample shaders

Very nice fire, water and refraction.

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/fx_c ... ome.html#2

I'm new to the combination of Ogre and Shaders, so I'd like to ask if its possible to compose shade codes in nVidia's FX Composer and use the compiled cg file in ogre?

Post by **sinbad** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 12:09 am

FX composer outputs .fx files, not Cg, and .fx is Direct3D specific, so you can't use them directly. However you can use the HLSL shader code, or convert it to Cg (which is trivial since the HLSL syntax is the same as Cg), and converting the other aspects of .fx like texture bindings, pass settings etc into Ogre .material scripts is pretty easy. I personally played with ATI's RenderMonkey to prototype the Fresnel demo's effects, and the tools have a lot in common (FX Composer was no doubt a response to RenderMonkey).

Post by **tuan kuranes** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 1:21 am

Here is an interesting projects with some shaders demo :

Sh is a metaprogramming language for programmable GPUs :
http://libsh.sourceforge.net/shaders/

-Diffuse, Gooch with Silhouette Detection, Environment-mapping, phong, worley (procedural textures generation), perlin noise
- the most original i've ever seen : " Particle System" using GPU as in order to compute gravity and collision (16 000 particles)

-Active project (last release on 16 march)
-The good thing is that you write c++ to generate shaders.
-There is a GPU emulator that can only be used for debugging but is worked to become faster (and be used as a fallback solution)
-zlib/libpng license
- Authors seems to be real expert of graphics... some papers :
http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/Projects/rendering/Papers/
("hybrid of the shadow map and shadow volume" technique is the only one I seem to be able to understand... for now

Post by **tuan kuranes** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 2:32 am

Huge list of shaders with source code under zlib license :

http://www.cgshaders.org/shaders/

Procedural & Animated Clouds ,fire , collisions, volume shadows, Soft Shadows from a local non-point light source, Particle System, Tone Shader,Windy Grass, explosions shockwave, sunset, cloud volumes, shadow mapping, sound triggered shaders......
( most binaries needs a nvidia card... but as cg sources provided... little tweaking can lead to binaries under other manufacturers card, here are some intersting conversion performance hints
http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic ... =20&t=4386 )

Huge paper repository on advanced uses of GPU :
http://www.gpgpu.org/
collision, particles, fluid simulation...

I found all those links while reading one nvidia's GDC presentation :
http://developer.nvidia.com/docs/IO/823 ... OnGPUs.pdf
(all other GDC are woth the reading :
nvidia's : http://developer.nvidia.com/object/gdc_ ... tions.html
my favourites from ion storm
http://www.ionstorm.com/archives/oldIon ... efault.asp with some definition here
http://gamestudies.cdis.org/~rocketship ... mterms.htm
)

Post by **tuan kuranes** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 2:52 am

Errata : ion storm gdc presentation of 2004 GDC is here : http://www.ionstorm.com/gdc2004/
(more interesting than 2003..)

Post by **tuan kuranes** » Thu Apr 08, 2004 12:51 am

Here are ATI gdc 2004 papers :

http://www.ati.com/developer/techpapers.html

my favorite are :

http://www.ati.com/developer/gdc/D3DTut ... hading.pdf
(1920 shaders in the valve source engine !!

and the traditionnal "optimization tips"
http://www.ati.com/developer/gdc/D3D_Tu ... ations.pdf

Post by **tuan kuranes** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 10:09 am

Some very intersting source in this competition :

http://shadertech.com/contest/

Post by **tuan kuranes** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 11:14 am

the halftone entry is a Ogre app !

PeterNewman · Post by **PeterNewman** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 12:22 am

/me makes a tuan kuranes supplied reference link folder. Puts in the AI references, and now the shader references.

Thanks!

Post by **tuan kuranes** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 10:24 am

Very interesting clouds rendering techniques using normal map for lighting and a "transmissivity map" for the cloud opacity :

http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards ... 3;t=012674

Post by **tuan kuranes** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 3:59 pm

No shaders but incredibly interesting code snippets along with explanation :

http://www.stereopsis.com/

float radix sort 5 times faster than Opcode's, many floating point optimizations guides and strategies (some in asm, some in C, some well-know, some I've never heard of), many math tricks, all portables and well explained.

Even if optimization is not of a need, it unveils many underlying things, a must-read for 2d, 3d coders.

Post by **:wumpus:** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 4:23 pm

Also very cool, especially the program using double-mapped vertex and pixel buffers to simulate a million particle system

http://download.nvidia.com/developer/SD ... mples.html

BTW the float radix sort looks nice for depth sorting et al!

Post by **tuan kuranes** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:54 pm

GDC 2005 papers and slides coming out :

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/gdc_ ... tions.html
http://www.ati.com/developer/techpapers.html#gdc05

soft-shadow buffer from Eric Lengyel
http://www.terathon.com/index.html