I develop shaders and earn money for that.

They're nothing revolutionary (maybe a few tricks in some of them).

The only reason I wan't to hide their source is because I spent many hours...

Shaders I wrote are too complex to be reverse engineered. Too much optimization is applied. Only vertex shaders are simple enough to be reverse engineered.

Also, generated assembly is a few...

I want to try to keep my code hidden (not human-readable). I don't want my code to be reverse engineered.

It has two combinatio of fragment / vertex shaders. One for raytracing and other for computing shadows. They take about 2-3 minutes using HLSL compiler (together).

I think I found a solution. I...

Thanks for the detailed info.

Sorry for being so curious, but I really wan't to go into how OpenGL shaders work.

I'm now studying of ways how to create programs and I'm looking at ARB assembly...

That makes me sad :(

Is there any enumeration in GLEW and/or MESA with program binary formats they support so I could get something besides the raw numbers?

I'd like to know what's the idea...

Thanks,
I have a few more questions.

Link provided by Alfonse says that there are vendor-specific format which can be provided by 3rd party extensions.

Does that means there are formats which...

Hi,
I'm using a heavy shader which takes a lot of time to compile so I'm trying to use binary shaders.

I'd like to compile a shader once and just load it onto shader pipeline next time I use it....

Thanks for the reply.

I will try to use GLEW only. I will update on progress.

Then I could finally port my code from D3D to OpenGL and use it on Linux and Windows :)

And what about glext.h?

I remember that most tutorials for windows were about including glext.h and then calling wglGetProcAddress to get pointers to functions above OpenGL 1.1. The problem was...

Ok,
I have somewhere a VC++ project where I used WGL for managing windows stuff and it worked with OpenGL 1.0 functions.

So which OpenGL32.lib should I use? The one that was included with VC++...

Ok ... I'm not really a windows fan so I'm new at using OpenGL on windows.

I'm trying to implement something like this:
http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems/gpugems_ch39.html

Can you then...

I'm just exploring possibilities of writing 3d rendering software which is OS independent.

I'm actually a great fan of OpenGL but when it comes to Windows, I get mad when trying to make it work...

Hi,
I've been seeing a lot of posts on the web about Gallium3D, but I'm not really sure how it is working (especially Direct3D part). The only thing I understand is that if I run a Direct3D game...