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Brennon Williams

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Working with Effects and HLSL

The past few weeks have been really frustrating for me in a lot of ways, mainly because I have had a need to learn and understand HLSL for the purpose of creating effects for not only WPF but also for use with XNA.

So I hit the trail of trying to understand all that I can about HLSL and Effects in general, and to be honest, the whole subject is a bit like reading a book that you can never get past the first 10 pages without falling asleep… it just goes on and on and on… never really getting to the point.

So I thought I would post a few links with some excellent book marks I now have so if you decide to head down this road of understanding, hopefully you can get to your destination a little bit quicker.

The first link is:

http://developer.nvidia.com/page/home.html

Have a look through this awesome resource, and especially the Content Authoring section where you can download the amazing FX Composer 2.5

Also check out their free Shader library:

http://developer.download.nvidia.com/shaderlibrary/webpages/shader_library.html

Some great videos on that site as well.

Next is:

http://www.codeplex.com/GraphiXNA

Some awesome results coming out of this project with plenty of support for standard effects required in many applications.

You should also check out Greg Schechter blog for a great intro to writing effects:

http://blogs.msdn.com/greg_schechter/archive/2008/05/12/introduction-to-writing-effects.aspx

 

Walt Ritscher was also kind enough to compile this list of links for me as well:

 

The DirectX SDK has some useful pages.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb509638%28VS.85%29.aspx

 

Other links

http://www.fairyengine.com/articles/hlsl2sided.htm

http://tinyurl.com/6y8qab

 

WPF specific links

http://tinyurl.com/6jfmkc

http://tinyurl.com/6pzytf

 

Thanks for that Walt!

So there is enough reading and playing with all those links to keep you awake for around a month… trust me on that ;-)

 

If you have some great resources you would like to add to the list, please email them through to me.

Posted: Sep 09 2008, 03:56 PM by Brennon Williams | with 29 comment(s)
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