I have downloaded the Cg Toolkit from Nvidia and have experimented in programming vertex shaders in Cg. Once I have made my vertexshader.cg file, can I compile it into Shader Assembly with the cg compiler provided in the toolkit? Or is there some other cg compiler out there that I must use(or should use, if you have any reccomendations)? Also, once I get my shader assembely code, do I just paste it into my c-script like so:

Code:

---

 VertexShader =
        decl
        {...;}
        asm
        {
            ... my shader assembly here...;
        };
 

---

Thankx for any help on this. Is there any documentation on this with 3dgs out there other than readbeta.txt?

did you ever get ananswer?
CG loks like an awesome tool and it exports .fx

you can't use cg directly. but it is possible to compile it to shader assembler which will work with a6 with some adaptations.

when conitec updates the engine to dx9 the directx high level shading language (which is basically the same as cg) will be supported.

Thanks for the info!
Ventilator is the shader king!

lol I just let the topic die down once I figured it out on my own. Cg is a very neat tool, but I don't have time to start learning another language at the moment with my game and all. I am just sticking to dx assembly.

It should be possible to convert Cg to DX assembly and then cutnpaste this into a shader file for GameStudio. Check the options of that command-line compiler.
Also, if I remember correctly, RenderMonkey allows HLSL to ASM conversions.

Rendermonkey is amazing... please someone convert the Fur shader!!!

Post a link and I'll give it a shot Drew. I have gotten the hang of converting... for the most part

wow really? converting from what specifically?
here is renderMonkey (it includes a fur shader in examples, one of 4 that I got to run on my ATI 8500, so i assume they are 8.1 shaders...)

RenderMonkey

Is it possible for a non-shader programmer to convert? or is it more of an art?
Do you have any new shaders working?