JeGX's Infamous Lab

Archive for November, 2006

Ageia has announced new licensing terms, allowing its PhysX SDK to be used and its runtime components distributed in all commercial and non-commercial PC projects for free.

This is a really good news for the community and for Hyperion! I filled up the register form and now I hope to receive the download link quickly.

In the demo I received from satyr (see oZone3D.Net forums), there is a toon shader that uses glsl uniforms. The pixel shader looked like to:

uniform float silhouetteThreshold;

void main()
{
  silhouetteThreshold = 0.32;     

  //... shader code
  //... shader code
  //... shader code
}

This pixel shader compiles well on nVidia gc but generes an error on ati. The error is right since an uniform is a read-only variable. This is an example of the nVidia glsl compiler laxity. That’s why I code my shader on ati: if the code is good for ati, we can be sure it will be good for nvidia too (of course there are always some exceptions…)