How is the best tool to make .fx files ?

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How is the best tool to make .fx files ? #49653 07/21/05 05:52 07/21/05 05:52
Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 344 S�o Paulo SP Brazil Marcio Esper OP Senior Member
Marcio Esper OP Senior Member Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 344 S�o Paulo SP Brazil	Hi, I would like to know how is the best tool to make and test .fx files. Thank you for attention. Best regards, Marcio Marcio Esper A6 Pro 6.60 MDL Models very cheap good quality US and Pt_BR Home Page - Portuguese-Br

Re: How is the best tool to make .fx files ? [Re: Marcio Esper] #49654 07/21/05 06:30 07/21/05 06:30
Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 3,298 Beverly, Massachusetts Rhuarc Expert
Rhuarc Expert Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 3,298 Beverly, Massachusetts	Notepad, or in my case, SciTE (I added a syntax highlighting properties file for FX). Best way is to hand code them, no matter what you're going to have to do some of it. If you are designing in something like rendermonkey, it's going to take some work by hand to get them into 3DGS. I no longer post on these forums, keep in touch with me via: Linkedin.com My MSDN blog

Re: How is the best tool to make .fx files ? [Re: Rhuarc] #49655 07/21/05 06:40 07/21/05 06:40
Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 8,939 planet.earth ello Senior Expert
ello Senior Expert Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 8,939 planet.earth	the best would have been shaderWorkx, but the fx-exporter never got developed (i think the company was bought and included into a big one) but that would definately be the best tool. check out for SMEE somewhere here in the forums.

Re: How is the best tool to make .fx files ? [Re: ello] #49656 07/21/05 08:40 07/21/05 08:40
Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,011 South Africa capanno Serious User
capanno Serious User Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,011 South Africa	Cant you just copy the text and compile or save it somewhere else? Talking about ShaderWorks... Last edited by Capanno; 07/21/05 08:41.

Re: How is the best tool to make .fx files ? [Re: Rhuarc] #49657 07/21/05 08:43 07/21/05 08:43
Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 8,939 planet.earth ello Senior Expert
ello Senior Expert Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 8,939 planet.earth	Quote: ... SciTE (I added a syntax highlighting properties file for FX)... do you share this file? thus the wheel must not be reinvented??

Re: How is the best tool to make .fx files ? [Re: ello] #49658 07/21/05 09:44 07/21/05 09:44
Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 344 S�o Paulo SP Brazil Marcio Esper OP Senior Member
Marcio Esper OP Senior Member Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 344 S�o Paulo SP Brazil	Hi, Thank you for answer. I am asking becouse I look a FX composer in nVidia site, ant it apears to be a great program, but it have 95MB and I want to know if any one use it before download this. http://developer.nvidia.com/object/fx_composer_home.html thank you for attention, Best regards, Marcio Marcio Esper A6 Pro 6.60 MDL Models very cheap good quality US and Pt_BR Home Page - Portuguese-Br

Re: How is the best tool to make .fx files ? [Re: Marcio Esper] #49659 07/21/05 10:04 07/21/05 10:04
Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,011 South Africa capanno Serious User
capanno Serious User Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,011 South Africa	Ive heard about it alot, have'nt used it though. It seems like a good program.

Re: How is the best tool to make .fx files ? [Re: ello] #49660 07/21/05 16:25 07/21/05 16:25
Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 3,298 Beverly, Massachusetts Rhuarc Expert
Rhuarc Expert Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 3,298 Beverly, Massachusetts	Quote: Quote: ... SciTE (I added a syntax highlighting properties file for FX)... do you share this file? thus the wheel must not be reinvented?? Sure! I'll throw it online and the modified lines to add to the global.properties file. I don't have all the keywords added to it yet, but I'm getting there, I just generally go in and update the keyword list in the properties file whenever I find a keyword that isn't highlighted for me. Adding the keywords is quite simple too. Do you use SciTE already? I thought I was the only one around here that actually used the tool . I'm in love with it, it works quite well. The scintilla dll is also quite useful, I had some time to use it for a while in an application I was making and it proved quite easy to use. I hate how the tabs don't work in win2k though, but on XP they do . -Rhuarc I no longer post on these forums, keep in touch with me via: Linkedin.com My MSDN blog

Re: How is the best tool to make .fx files ? [Re: Rhuarc] #49661 07/21/05 18:31 07/21/05 18:31
Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 4,875 broozar Expert
broozar Expert Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 4,875	fx composer requires a .net framework development kit, and a gpu at least of the nvidia fx generation (DX9). the CgFX viewer is a nice tool to view cg/fx shaders, and play around with them, but they aren�t easy to get to work with GStudio. nevertheless, i recommend it (the fx shader base is a must): http://developer.nvidia.com/object/IO_CgFXViewer.html homepage \| shameless advertising \| Linux supporter

Re: How is the best tool to make .fx files ? [Re: broozar] #49662 07/21/05 21:37 07/21/05 21:37
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 4,131 M Matt_Aufderheide Expert
Matt_Aufderheide Expert M Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 4,131	Just use SED.. it allows to open, edit, and save .fx files like normal scripts.. it even highlights the syntax in the appropriate way.

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