Hlsl

if you understand Italian my web site has it with full source code

robydx.altervista.org section directX9 - direct3D

hovever is simple, an example is enaugh to understand and for complex shader code is very usefull (for simple code is a waste of time).

if you has difficult tell me

Thanks

if you understand Italian my web site has it with full source code

robydx.altervista.org section directX9 - direct3D

hovever is simple, an example is enaugh to understand and for complex shader code is very usefull (for simple code is a waste of time).

if you has difficult tell me

Do you know of any service that can translate a whole site for me (i have enough trouble with english let allone italian). Thanks very much though, i think i can figure it out, the book i have is loading them as effects which is what was giving me so much trouble your way might be better for me. Although my Graphics card only supportsr VS_1_1 and PS_1_3... but oh well...

altervista has a translation service. Probably one way is to install a translation program. Hovever you card 'll be enaght. If you need a debugger try my "shaderDK" in project SDK. It's a tool that I've realised that permit to write, test, debug and visualize shaders in every version and also in REF (so you can test 2.0 shaders also).

bye

Thanks for your help

altervista has a translation service. Probably one way is to install a translation program. Hovever you card 'll be enaght. If you need a debugger try my "shaderDK" in project SDK. It's a tool that I've realised that permit to write, test, debug and visualize shaders in every version and also in REF (so you can test 2.0 shaders also).

bye

hopefully one day ill be able to solve a problem for you, but that day seems quite distant right now...

Can you Use CustomVertex Structures?

My code is giving me an error when rendering the primitives. (worked before i added the vertex shader): Important Things, VertexBuffer im rendering

4 Primitives Triangle list, CustomVertex.PositionNormal, VertexDeclaration :

dim PN() As VertexElement = {New VertexElement(0, 0, DeclarationType.Float3, DeclarationMethod.Default, DeclarationUsage.Position, 0), _
                                    New VertexElement(0, 12, DeclarationType.Float3, DeclarationMethod.Default, DeclarationUsage.Normal, 0), VertexElement.VertexDeclarationEnd}
       PositionNormal.VDec = New VertexDeclaration(D3d.Device, PN)

the Vertex Shader is loaded

GS = ShaderLoader.CompileShaderFromFile(Application.StartupPath & "\...\VS-GlowPN.VSH", "VSGlowPN", Nothing, Nothing, "vs_1_1", ShaderFlags.None, Errors, Nothing)
           Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(Errors)
           PositionNormal.AddVertexShader("Glow", New VertexShader(D3d.Device, GS))

And the Vertex Shader Its self

float GlowPower:register(c0);
float4x3 WorldView:register(c1);
float4x4 Projection:register(c49);
float4 GlowAmbient:register(c113);
float4 GlowColor:register(c117);
struct OUTPUT
{
   float4 Position : POSITION;
   float4 Diffuse  : COLOR0;
};
OUTPUT VSGlowPN
   (
   float4 Position : POSITION, 
   float4 Normal   : NORMAL
   )
{
   OUTPUT Out;
   float3 N = normalize(mul(Normal, (float3x3)WorldView));
   float3 P = mul(Position, WorldView) + GlowPower * N;
   float3 A = float3(0, 0, 1);
   float Power;
   Power  = dot(N, A);
   Power *= Power;
   Power -= 1;
   Power *= Power;
   Out.Position = mul(float4(P, 1), Projection);
   Out.Diffuse  = GlowColor * Power + GlowAmbient;   
   return Out;    
}

Any ideas whats wrong here?

The Error message is

RenderVertexBuffer: Error in the application.

-2146232832 (Unknown)

   at Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Device.DrawPrimitives(PrimitiveType primitiveType, Int32 startVertex, Int32 primitiveCount)

   at W_Logic_RPG.DX9.Direct3d.RenderVertexBuffer(VertexBuffer& VertexBuffer, PrimitiveType PrimitiveType, Int32 StartVertex, Int16 PrimCount, Matrix Transform) in C:\Documents and Settings\Harry\Desktop\Programming\W-Logic RPG\clsDX901.vb:line 498

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did you set the vertex declaration correctly?

device.vertexdeclaration=myVertexDeclaration?

did you pass your array without index to drawPrimitive

vertexArray(0) wrong

vertexArray correct

did you pass also vertexFormat?

you must pass all 3 Format, declaration and vertexShader to work properly

...

I dont know if the vertex declaration is right or not (note the first code sample of my previous post), All of the Format,Shader and Declaration are set to the Device, And the vertex Buffer is being rendered the same as allways (worked before the Shader), as i said. Just the shader Code and VertexDeclrations that im questioning.

Vertex Format

As i said im using CustomVertex.PositionNormal as the format.

*Bangs Head*

I cant believe this, but im just being an idiot (Again) im really sorry RobyDx for all the time youve been thinking about this (and i know you have noting the number of posts and checking your profile showing when your viewing this form, Anyways what happened was that i was using the wrong VertexFormat as i was programming at home and at school and forgot to update the creation code at home (where thanks to your website RobyDx i coded my VertexShader). Anyways VertexShader isnt showing up but its not erroring so its just that the Vertex Shader isnt quite right but i will fix that eventually.. Thanks for your help and Thumbs up on the website.

Oh ya, I need to know a bit more about what info the normals should contain, right now ive got them all as +/- 0.7071, but im not sure thats right, lets say i have a triangle (0,1,0) (-1,0,0) (0,0,-1) what should the normals for each verticy be? i have (-0.7071,0.7071,-0.7071) for all 3.