Hi !
I haven't started yet of programming shaders but i wonder two things :
1)how works (in theory) texturing with shaders (vertex or fragment ? or both ?)
2)What do we call "precision" (FP32, FP24 or FP16)by speaking of capability of graphic cards ?
thanks !
1)
Texturing is done via a textureXD function. this function needs a sampler (which represents your texture object) and a texture coordinate. This texture coordinate is taken from the vertex shader and then interpolated (just like the Color in fixed function OpenGL).
2)
When you talk about FP32 precision in vertex/fragment shader you have a floating point type with 32Bit (standart IEEE 754, just like float in C++). But there are also other floating point types: FP16 and FP24. If you have a 4D FP32 vector it will have 4*32 = 128 Bit.
AFAIK nVidias NV3X and NV4X supports FP16 and FP32 and ATI R3XX and R4XX supports FP24.
Of course using a lower-presicion data type will give you some speed but you might loose quality.
But right now it is not possible to choose floating point precision in pure GLSL.
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ok thanks !
GPU's are not IEEE 754 compliant. They are very similar to IEEE 754; for graphics, the subtle differences don't really matter.
On nVIDIA hardware, fp16 can get you a lot of speed-up in the fragment shader; It doesn't really affect performance in the vertex shader.
nvidia cards support glslang ? somebody has told me that only professionnals could program with it, is it true ?
Oh, didn't know that. Thanks for the information!GPU's are not IEEE 754 compliant. They are very similar to IEEE 754; for graphics, the subtle differences don't really matter.
GLSL is available in nVidia drivers since 56.53. But you have to you NVEmmulate or you take a look at http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boa...;f=11;t=000051nvidia cards support glslang ? somebody has told me that only professionnals could program with it, is it true ?
Or you get a 60-series driver at http://www.3dchipset.com/drivers/bet...a/nt5/6111.php . With these drivers you don't need to "activate" GLSL.
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened...
ATI has supported glslang on R300 boards for a long time now. NVidia has support nowadays too.Originally posted by airseb:
nvidia cards support glslang ? somebody has told me that only professionnals could program with it, is it true ?
ok thank you guys !
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