both look the same the one with just a texture and the one with the shader applied, my grapics card is geforcefx 5200, surly that works with shaders

It works with Shaders but not with such a dirty shadermodel 3.0 shader which would most probably work with sm 2.0 as well after a lot of clean up.

cheers slin so i can only use shader 2.0 till i upgrade me card then. don`t suppose anyone has this in 2.0

I have a lap top with bad card and it acepted this shadermodel3 3.0..

Try to change the tecnquiue to pixel shader 2 as above:

technique T0
{
pass P0
{
ZEnable = TRUE;
ZWriteEnable = TRUE;
CullMode = none;
VertexShader = compile vs_2_0 vertex_main();
PixelShader = compile ps_2_0 fragment_main();
}
}

okay , slin dont be that hard with me ok? i know you probably don't like me, but, i just wanted to contribute, it works for me, if someone wants they do them self i don't even sell this shader, of course a paid one would be optimized.

And about the clean, up, the formulas i use are the nedded to do such effect, mental mill works adding specific nodes, with specifc formulas, and they are fast, i mean, they are from nVidea Developers, of course there are text not necessary.

And i talked with them about implementing an optimizing feature.. and clean some unnecessary text.

What I don´t like is that you seem not to care what the shader is like. I´d prefere you to learn to write them completely on your own. A next step into that direction would be if you´d try to clean this up nicely.
Btw, I´d never sell or buy just one shader. Only maybe a pack of many usefull shaders, but then heavily optimised.
I don´t want you to create a perfect shader, but please try to improve this one.

i can't change the formulas, since, they are needed for specific outputs, i can just clean the unneeded text... the rest i can't optimize. im not that expert yet.
I just needed this to my game, and i would like to share, it, for me it worked nice, for the publishing of course i would need to review and test in other cards, anyway, the fx composer has a option to show the performance of it, in any card i want, and it seams pretty god for average.. thats why i did not touched anything, since it works, ok it can be ugly code, but i don't know other way, im not into shaders at all.

Just in case you would miss it if I would edit my previous post:
That "unnecessary text" is needed for the editor. It marks for examples variables to be set. I guess an "optimizing feature" would already be in there if it would be that easy
What the editor does is just lining up a lot of different formulas until you get the desired effect. But many things could be done much easier than the combination of all those nodes is.

I know you right, but i don't know other way, you know, thats what i got from mental mill, and i just wanted to share.. just that. I like your presence, and being critical makes me better.