Massive 3DGS Shadercollection

4 or 5 days ago HeelX asked me to create a collection of all these shaders. Because I just had a big motivation drop for going on with Chopper-Zone, I started to create such a package and that is what you can download here.

It is a collection of about 40 shaders some of them are very similar some other aren´t. I think the quality goes from amazing to okay but not less. My example levels are far away from perfect wich means, that the shaders could look much better if the lightening, models and textures are right.

It was A LOT of work to create this collection, wich means that I want you to use it . The shaders are sorted by the needed shadermodels and they come all together with an example level (with wmp), a compiled version of the level and with a screenshot.

The shaders come from the shader forum, usercontributions, acknex unlimited, the 3DGS wiki and from ellos website (ther is a lot of cool stuff on his site, so you should definatly check it out ). If any of the shaderprogrammers don´t want his shader to be in this package, please tell me and I´ll delete it (Sorry, I should have asked you before uploading the file...). If you know of any shader I missed, it would be great, if you could send it to me or tell me where to find it and I´ll upload an update for this when I collected some more Shaders (Contact me via ICQ, MSN, eMail or personal mail through the forums) or just leave a comment here.

To run these shaders, you need at least A6.31.4 Comm and a graphicscard with support for the needed shaderversions. There is one shader wich needs render to texture, wich is only possible with A6 Pro or A7 Comm/Pro.

I created the Levels with A7, not knowing, that you can´t open them with the A6 WED... But at least the scriptfiles should work for you without any problems. You can run them through SED or use the compiled version only.

There are some persons around here with the opinion, that there aren´t any shaders for 3DGS, so I hope to change your opinion now with this package a bit

You should check the .fx files if you want to use a shader, because there are often some values wich are worth to tweak.

Here is an overview of the whole collection:



I hope that you love it as much as I do
Download it here.

Slin
hey, and give me some comments

btw, I already have some postprocessing shaders on my hdd, so stay tuned. Though it should take some weeks/month until I´ll upload them as a collection like this.

And this is free??

you got me speachless

I just downloaded it, lol I still don't have A7 comm yet but I'll have it very soon and I'll let you know what I think

Wow! Thank you.

I can't believe it! This is awesome, can't wait to try it out! Thanks soooo much

Thanks!
Adoado.

Hey, finally you followed my orders MAHAHA thanks man, thanks. I will check it out and then I'll give feedback.

Thank you. We appreciate all the work and time you put into this.
Thanks.

This is huge!!!!

Did you test how much and which of them worked together within the same level?
Or, is this a unnecessary concern?

This is just amazing slin, a massive contribution with shaders is always but I mean always welcome and learningful !! You really maded one hell of an effort to provide this free package towards the rest of us users I'll be purchasing A7 commerical pretty soon, until then I can't judge the shaders with a render to texture instruction yet but I just know they will look nice !!
5 stars rating here you come

Cheers

Frazzle

Nice Contribut.

THANKS

may i marry you? awesome! will they work with a7 as well? not that i had id, but just i case i finally decide to update...

Hey, cool, a lot are really cool! Thanks for your contribution.

Though, I would like to see some fullscreen effects in your package as well like blooming (not cheap bloom), color filtering etc. Do you have something like this on your harddrive as well?

Hi Slin!
Thank you for your contribution, but I must be sincere, I like your tutorial more on how convert the shader of nvidia FX, we are waiting all for the second tutorial, and the list of the keywords that must be replaced to make it works with 3dgs, big contribution!!!

Thank you!


salva

@HeelX:

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btw, I already have some postprocessing shaders on my hdd, so stay tuned. Though it should take some weeks/month until I´ll upload them as a collection like this.

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@Pappenheimer: You can of course use them all together. The only thing this could result in is a bad performence. But there shouldn´t be any other problems, though I haven´t tried it.

@broozar: sure, the compiled versions are all running with A7

@Salva: It will take some time, but I´ll relly go on when I´ve got some time. Do you already know of a shader you want to convert for the next part? Btw, I think that this is a bit more usefull then a convertion tutorial, because you already got a cuple of ready to use tutorials, though you are right that it is good if you know how to convet one in the case, that you something wich isn´t in here.


Thanks for all your comments, and hey go on