Shader HowTo

[deckerego]

A shader howto would be uber-nifty.

[dingobloo]

how to write them or how to apply them in materails?  

[deckerego]

Both, really. Nothing necessarily complex... just building a very elementary shader from scratch and applying it to a material, then applying the material to a simple mesh (i.e. a silly shader that changes the original color of a cube). I think demonstrating how easy shaders can be is a good illustration of CS.

[dingobloo]

Applying an already existing shader to a mesh factory is now covered in Part 1 of my XML map file format tutorials. Also the New Renderer Docs are nearing completion and that has a good shader/renderloop tutorial in it so i think we'll have to leave this one upto the experts

[deckerego]

You beat me to the punch on tutorials for XML world formats! I just submitted one. Sans photos, of course. My Blender one was submitted as well however - which should complement the XML one well.

Also working on submitting the Cal3d tutorial (which is much longer)

[dingobloo]

Good well i still have 2 more parts to the tutorial 2: Sectors and 3: Triggers and sequences