[Bf-funboard] Nvidia Cg Shaders

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

In my vision, the Blender 3 project is targeted at fully integrate with  
programmable shaders, both for real-time as for 'traditional' rendering.

I'd welcome experiments with it a lot... but I don't understand how  
exactly the work you do fits in with Blender or engine now...?

We should find a way to integrate this kind of work in our roadmap. My  
preference would be to do that for the game engine project for after  
2.3 is out (with Solid presumably!). There have been quite some  
postings here and in the developers mailing list on how to organize the  
game engine... a couple of coders are very interested in mainting and  
improving that, including support for more advanced opengl shading.  
With them we'll establish a new project & mailing list, to enable them  
to work quite independent and with their own release cycle.

Since this is a technical issue (as well), you might check on the  
bf-committers mailing list for who to contact. :)

The official release planning is still to get a 2.25 compatible open  
source release out, before accepting changes/improvements in the engine  
project. I really hope we can have this in 2.3.

-Ton-



On Saturday, Sep 27, 2003, at 02:08 Europe/Amsterdam, Clinton Baldridge  
wrote:

> Hi. I've started writing a Python program that will let you preveiw  
> NVIDIA Cg vertex and fragment shaders in Blender. I should have a  
> working version in a few days with support for basic Cg shaders. I'm  
> going to make it possible to export OpenGL/Cg C code, so the object  
> you've tried the shader on can be built into a game. When I have time  
> I'll add more features and a gui to set shader and export values.  I  
> think it would be a lot better solution if it where a part of Blender  
> though.  How about this?: a Realtime Shader/Materials menu in  
> Blender:-) Seems like a great Idea to me let me know what you think.
>
> Clinton
>
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