Shader Script .SHD

by Christoph Kubisch

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Definition

A shader allows multiple texture effects on a single surface. That can be blending different textures or complex operations such as Cg or Vertex/Fragment programs.
The shader defines how textures should be blend, while a MTL-Material sets the textures to be used, however the shader can have hardwired textures and special textures.

It is made of several stages, you should try to limit the amount of stages cause it will affect performance.

The header is necessary
current layout version:
luxinia_Shader_v310

Syntax

All commands are case sensitive and closed by ; or "newline". A keyword and its arguments may not span multiple lines.
<id> ranges from 0 to 7
<vector4> is (float,float,float,float)
<bool> is 1 = true, 0 = false

Branching

You can do branching with following commands. Enclose the branches in curly brackets { }

  • IF:<condition string>
  • ELSEIF:<condition string>
  • ELSE

The condition string can be set from luxinia API with resource.condition, or it may be part of a "define" in the Cg Compiler string.
You can also negate a statement with !<condition string>.
Following conditions are automatically set if applicable:
  • CAP_MODADD capability for modulated add texture combiner
  • CAP_COMBINE4 capability for combine4 texture combiner
  • CAP_TEX3D capability for accelerated 3d textures
  • CAP_TEXFLOAT capability for float textures formats (float32 and float16)

Be aware that the parser is not fully rock solid, so at best use COMMAND{<newline> <what><newline> }<newline> , when problems occur.

Annotations & Comments

You can add annotations anywhere in the file and later query them after load.
  • <<_ "name"; serves as start and is skipped by branching/comments or ignored TECHNIQUEs?.
  • _>> denotes the end of the custom string.
Anything between the two will become part of the annotation, so use with caution. 

// comment until lineend

// multi-line annotation
<<_ "A"    
test = a * b
// this will be part of annotation as well
blahblubb
_>>

/* block commenting ...
<<_ "B"; min=25,max=90 _>>;    
//inlined annotation but ignored, due to active block comment
*/

C-style comments with // and /*...*/ may not start within command & keywords. So start comments always after ; in a line that contains command words.

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Example

luxinia_Shader_v310
Technique:VID_LOWDETAIL{
    Texture{
        TEX "Texture:0"
    }
}
Technique:VID_CG_TEX4{
    RenderFlag{
        //comment blah
        lit;
        nocull;
    }
    GpuProgram{
        BASE 0 "gpuprogs/test.cg" "unlit";
        SKIN 0 "gpuprogs/test.cg" "skin_unlit";
        BASE 1 "gpuprogs/test.cg" "lit1";
        SKIN 1 "gpuprogs/test.cg" "skin_lit1";

        VCG;

        param "angle" 0 VID_VALUE (45.0,0.0,0.0,1.0);
        tangents;
    }
    GpuProgram{
        BASE 0 "gpuprogs/test_pixel.cg" "main";
        FCG;
        param "color" 0 VID_LIGHTCOLOR (0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0) 0;
    }
    Color{
        RGBA "Color:0";
    }
    Texture{
        TEX "Texture:1";
    }
    Texture{
        ATTENUATE3D;
    }
    Texture{
        NORMALIZE;
    }
    /*    blockcomment
        ...
    */
}
Technique:VID_DEFAULT{
    RenderFlag{
        lit;
        nocull;
    }
    Color{
        RGBA "Color:0";
    }
    Texture{
        VTEX "Texture:0";
    }
    IF:DOSIMPLEANI{
        Texture{
            TEX "textures/fx/aniso.jpg";
            blendmode VID_ADD;
        }
    }
}

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Technique

you can specify techniques if the same shader should look different depending on hardware capabilities, if no technique is specified VID_DEFAULT is assumed.
If a technique is defined there also must be a VID_DEFAULT technique. The first technique that is valid for the system's hardware will be used, so you should put the "highest detail" ones above default in. If there is any VID_LOWDETAIL must come first. It works like the IF in branching, just that the parser will stop after the first valild technique was over.

following techniques are defined:

  • basic techniques:
    • VID_DEFAULT
      always works on all hardware (blendmode VID_NORMAL might not)
    • VID_LOWDETAIL
      is used when user set engine details to low.

  • higher techniques in ascending priority:
    • VID_ARB_TEXCOMB
      requires ARB texture_env_combine, crossbar (or NV combine4), dot3 and cubemaps.
    • VID_ARB_V
      requires ARB vertex programs and combiners (sm1 cards)
    • VID_ARB_VF
      requires ARB vertex program and fragment program (sm2 cards)
    • VID_CG_SM3
      requires Cg support and shader model 3 capabilities along with 16 texture images
    • VID_CG_SM4
      requires Cg support and shader model 4 capabilities along with 32 texture images
    • VID_CG_SM4_GS
      requires Cg support and shader model 4 capabilities with geometry shader along with 32 texture images (requires luxinia.exe with SM4?_GS support)

  • _TEX4
    means it also needs 4 texture images (not for CG modes)
  • _TEX8
    means it also needs 8 texture images (only for VID_ARB_VF)

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RenderFlag

These are independent from stages and used for all surfaces assigned, so be careful.
They are added to the object's renderflags when the material using this shader is assigned to the object. You can change the mesh/object's renderstate afterwards using the renderinterface.renderflag in luxinia.api.

  • nocolorarray;
    turns of color array (often required when you want Color Stages)
  • sunlit;
    surface is shaded by sunlights
  • unlit;
    surface is not shaded by any lights (forces lights off)
  • nocull;
    turns backface culling off
  • nodepthmask;
    wont write into depthmask (ie. no depth information stored)
  • nodepthtest;
    wont do depth testing (ie. always on top when drawn)
  • alphamask;
    quick for: alphafunc GL_GREATER (0.0)
  • alphaTEX "filename.ext" <texchannel uint>;
    when a shader uses alphatesting and projectors are applied
    this texture's alpha will be used as mask for all. Alternatively it can be stored for baking processes.
    Same mechanism as for the other TEX commands at Texture is used.
    If shader blend-compilation creates problems, use newpass mechanism and manually define combiners to preserve the alpha you need.
    • texchannel
      optionally you can define which texcoord channel to use 0-3. See texcoord command below.
  • normals;
    means the program needs normals as pervertex attrib

  • alphafunc <enum func> (<float ref>);
    pixels are rejected if they dont pass the alphatest.
    • func
      same as in OGL
      GL_NEVER, GL_ALWAYS, GL_LESS, GL_GREATER, GL_LEQUAL, GL_GEQUAL, GL_EQUAL, GL_NOTEQUAL
  • layer <int 0-15>;
    to move surfaces in certain draw layers. This allows control over when things are drawn.

  • blendmode <enum>;
  • blendinvertalpha;
    see blendmode command for details. Be aware that "DrawPass?" blendmodes,
    as well as blendmodes for first stages in blend-compile mode will override this
setting.

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Stages

There are 4 different types of stages. All stages are processed in the same order, it is written in the shader file.
Limits: MAX_TEXSTAGES = 16, MAX_COLORSTAGES = 1
Beyond the limit will be ignored

DrawPass

A pass is started from here on.
Be warned that once you start using DrawPass no automatic blend-compilation will be done. This is why you must make sure, that the stages after and before newpass can actually be processed within a single pass. This means on Techniques with 2 Texture units you must not use more than 2 TextureStages?.

The advantage is that you can use a lot more blendmodes/combiners for texturing. You can also define your own here or with the lua api.

Color

Just a simple color, overrides vertexcolors of surface. For most "models" you will need to use "nocolorarray" renderflag to actually see an effect of the values specified here.

  • RGBA "Color:n";
    n is id in material

Texture

A single texturemap:

  • TEX "filename.ext";
    • TEX : RGB/RGBA
    • TEXALPHA : ALPHA
    • V??? : auto sets vertexcolored flag
  • TEX/VTEX "Texture:n";
    n is id in Material
  • System needs cubemap support:
    • TEXPROJ: RGB/RGBA with cubemap using given texture as +Z
    • TEXDOTZ: INTENSITY/RGB/RGBA with cubemap using given 1d texture as dot(vector,+z), -1 is left and +1 is right.
    • TEXCUBE: 6 textures separated by comma make this texture
      "pos_x.jpg,neg_x.jpg,pos_y.jpg,neg_y.jpg,pos_z.jpg,neg_z.jpg"
      or a single .dds file "cubemap.dds"
  • User Textures
    • if the name string looks like "USER_TEX(name)" then the engine will lookup
      user-created textures or registered textures with this name.
  • Special Textures
    • LIGHTMAP;
      the lightmap for the instance of current model
      there cannot be more than a single LIGHTMAP texture stage
  • For higher Techniques:
    • ATTENUATE3D;
      a 3d texture with radial square falloff
    • NORMALIZE;
      a normalization cubemap
    • SKYBOX;
      the skybox cubemap
    • SPECULAR;
      specular cubemap lighting, intensity = (MAX (0,(texcoord dot (0,0,1)))^8
    • DIFFUSE;
      diffuse cubemap lighting, intensity = MAX(0,texcoord dot (0,0,1))
    • DUMMY;
      this texture serves as dummy whenever you need a texture-stage but no texture. This is mostly for activating texcoords for GpuPrograms when no textures themselves are needed.

GpuProgram

only allowed in higher techniques, you are responsible for pass setup as in DrawPass?.
To use more than one pair of GpuPrograms? (vertex/fragment) you need to use DrawPass? mechanism.
Also, GpuPrograms? of a pass must come next to each other. When Cg is used none of the "OpenGL?" state variables are allowed ("state.???" or "gl_???").

  • BASE <int lightnum> "filename.ext" "entryname"
    • lightnum
      is not needed but can be specified from 0 to 4
    • entryname
      For Cg shaders this is the entryfunction name. The string can contain compilerarguments separated with a ^ "entryname^compilerargs". The actual entryname is the string before ^.
      Multiple Cg compiler settings can be set, e.g. "entryname^-Dsetting=0.5;-DPIXELLIT;". Each arg must be separated by ";".
      The engine can also load precompiled shaders, therefore the actual filename is changed accordingly. "filename.ext" becomes "filename.ext.entryname^compilerargs^profile.???",
      where ??? is glp for Programs or glsl for GLSL
      The compilerargs are concatted by settings passed by material or shader loading and the rendersystem.cgcompiler string.

For Vertex Processing
  • SKIN <int lightnum> "filename.ext" "entryname"
    optional with skinning support, same vertex programtype as the basic one. To really allow gpu skinning all vertex stages must specifcy a skin program.
    And all programs within shader must be of same type. Automatically adds "-DVID_BONES=???;", with ??? set by luxinia api, to the compilerargs.

For Fragment Processing
  • FOGGED <int lightnum> "filename.ext" "entryname"
    optional, used when fog state is set

  • <enum type>;
    • type
      VPROG ARB_VERTEX_PROGRAM (very common)
      VCG Cg Shader (very common)
      FPROG ARB_FRAGMENT_PROGRAM (SM2?+)
      FCG Cg Shader (SM2?+)
  • lowCgProfile;
    optional flag, allows compilation of the program to a low CgProfile? (typically arbvp1 or arbfp1).
    All GpuPrograms in Techniques < VID_CG_SM3 will be compiled as "lowCgProfile". And all above with the maximum CgProfile?,
    unless this flag is set. Typically you would use this flag on VertexPrograms?, that are sufficient with the simpler
    profiles, as internally that is cheaper.

Notes:

  • All (only Cg)
    Connect Parameters
    Cg requires you to use a few standard matrices. Any more special matrices can be queried with the "param" command, or shadercghostparam class.
    You can either use the variables directly (same name) or vie Semantics.
    • float4x4 WorldMatrix? - the current local2world matrix
      Semantics: WORLD, WORLDMATRIX
    • float4x4 WorldViewProjMatrix?
      Semantics: WORLDVIEWPROJ, WORLDVIEWPROJECTION, WORLDVIEWPROJMATRIX, WORLDVIEWPROJECTIONMATRIX
    • float4x4 ViewMatrix?
      Semantics: VIEW, VIEWMATRIX
    • float4x4 ViewMatrixInv?
      Semantics: VIEWMATRIXINV, VIEWINV, VIEWINVERSE, VIEWINVERSEMATRIX, VIEWINVMATRIX
    • float4x4 ProjMatrix?
      Semantics: PROJ, PROJECTION, PROJECTIONMATRIX, PROJMATRIX
    • float4x4 ProjMatrixInv?
      Semantics: PROJMATRIXINV, PROJINV, PROJECTIONINV, PROJINVERSE, PROJECTIONINVERSE, PROJINVMATRIX, PROJECTIONINVMATRIX, PROJINVERSEMATRIX, PROJECTIONINVERSEMATRIX
    • float4x4 ViewProjMatrix?
      Semantics: VIEWPROJECTION, VIEWPROJ, VIEWPROJMATRIX, VIEWPROJECTIONMATRIX
    • float3 FogColor?
      Semantics: FOGCOLOR
    • float3 FogDistance? - (start,end,density)
      Semantics: FOGDISTANCE
    • float3 CameraWorldPos?
      Semantics: CAMERAWORLDPOS, VIEWPOSITION, VIEWPOS
    • float3 CameraWorldDir?
      Semantics: CAMERAWORLDDIR, VIEWDIRECTION, VIEWDIR
    • float2 ViewportSize?
      Semantics: VIEWPORTSIZE, VIEWPORTDIMENSION
    • float2 ViewportSizeInv? - 1.0/size
      Semantics: VIEWPORTSIZEINV, VIEWPORTSIZEINVERSE, VIEWPORTDIMENSIONINV, VIEWPORTDIMENSIONINVERSE, INVERSEVIEWPORTDIMENSIONS

  • Skinning
    • program.env[0..VID_BONESLAST] (ARB_prog) or
      float4x3 Bonesmatrices[VID_BONES]
      Semantics: BONES, BONESMATRICES (Cg)
      matrices can contain up to VID_BONESMAX float4s saved as float4x3 matrices
      • VID_BONES = ((96 or 256 depending on hardware) - rendersystem_hwbonesparams)
      • VID_BONESMAX = 3* VID_BONES
      • VID_BONESLAST = VID_BONESMAX - 1

    • vertex.attrib14 = {index0, weight0, index1, weight1}

  • Particle general
    no ViewMatrix? needed, as particles are in viewspace
    Cg provides particle lightmap texgen matrix directly & float3x4 PRTlmtexgen?
    Semantics: PRTLMTEXGEN.

  • Particle non-instanced mesh
    • program.local[1..32] (ARB_prog) or
      float4 PRTvertexoffsets?[32]
      Semantics: PRTVERTEXOFFSETS (Cg)
      vertex offsets
    • program.local[33..64] (ARB_prog) or
      float4 PRTtexoffsets?[32]
      Semantics: PRTTEXOFFSETS (Cg)
      texture offsets
    • program.local[0] (ARB_prog) or
      float2 PRTtexwidth?
      Semantics: PRTTEXWIDTH (Cg)
      texturewidth float2(texwidth,1)
    • program.local[65..67] (ARB_prog) or
      float3x4 PRTglobalaxis?
      Semantics: PRTGLOBALAXIS (Cg)
      global axis for aligned particles

    • vertex.tex0 = { Index, Size, texnum, 1 }
    • vertex.attrib14 = { cos, -sin , age/life , speed }

  • Particle instanced mesh
    • vertex.attrib9 - 11 = Instance World Matrix44 (float3x4)
    • vertex.attrib12 = {texoffset,relage,speed,0}
    • vertex.attrib13 = {color r,g,b,a}

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Commands

After the stage specific commands there is multiple possibilities to change the stage

blendmode <mode enum>;

to blend fragments on top of each other, enums start with VID_...

Allowed in RenderFlag-,DrawPass-,Texture- and Color-Stages (same for 'blendinvert', 'alphamode' only in Texture).

RESULT = the fragment produced after blend
TEX = current fragment, normally a texture but could as well be a plain color
PREV = the previous fragment drawn (the one "below" TEX)

  • Replacement mode
    just overwrites previous fragment
    RESULT = (TEX)
    • VID_REPLACE
  • Modulation mode
    multiplies fragments
    RESULT = (PREV) * (TEX) * (VALUE)
    • VID_MODULATE
      VALUE = 1
    • VID_MODULATE2
      VALUE = 2 (not allowed in texture combiners, use rgbscale instead)
  • Decal modes
    A decal is drawn ontop of another surface and replaces the pixel below based on the alpha value used (think of a transparent sticker):
    RESULT = (PREV) * ( 1-ALPHA) + (TEX) * (ALPHA)
    • VID_DECAL
      ALPHA = TEX.ALPHA
    • VID_DECAL_PREV
      ALPHA = PREV.ALPHA
    • VID_DECAL_VERTEX
      ALPHA = VERTEXCOLOR.ALPHA
    • VID_DECAL_CONST
      ALPHA = TEXCONSTANT.ALPHA (provided by texconst)
  • Additive modes
    The fragments are summed together:
    RESULT = (PREV) + (TEX) * FACTOR
    • VID_ADD
      FACTOR = 1
    • VID_AMODADD
      FACTOR = TEX.ALPHA
    • VID_AMODADD_PREV
      FACTOR = PREV.ALPHA
    • VID_AMODADD_VERTEX
      FACTOR = VERTEXCOLOR.ALPHA
    • VID_AMODADD_CONST
      FACTOR = CONSTANT.ALPHA (provided by texconst)

  • Special modes:
    • VID_NORMALMAPTAN
      takes the texture as tangentspace normal map and does a "lighting pass" after all previous passes. This results always in n+1 passes. As it requires more extensions it might be ignored if system is not capable of doing it.

only in VID_ARB_V and higher techniques:
  • VID_AMODADD_CONSTMOD
    RESULT = (PREV) + (TEX) * FACTOR
    FACTOR = CONSTANT.ALPHA * TEX.ALPHA
  • VID_DECAL_CONSTMOD
    RESULT = (PREV) * ( 1-ALPHA) + (TEX) * (ALPHA)
    ALPHA = CONSTANT.ALPHA * TEX.ALPHA

  • Advanced:
    • internal modes:
      the blendcompiler normally turns the basic modes above and generates other modes so that it uses least passes possible.
      In manual blendsetup mode those might be useful. All combiners are listed in the "vid_texcombiners.txt" file

    • custom modes:
      You can program your own texture combiners with the luxinia api and store them with your custom names (e.g. COMBINER_SPECIAL_ALPHA).
      See texturecombiner class for details

Alternatively you can generate a texture combiner from a string. This is equivalent to using texturecombiner class.
The string is created like this:
VIDTC_<OPCODE>:<ARGSOURCE>.<ARGOPERAND>|...|...

OPCODE

ARGSOURCE
  • TEX current texture
  • VERTEX current vertex color
  • CONST constant texture color of current textureunit
  • PREV previous
  • require special capabilities (Technique TEXCOMB)

ARGOPERAND
  • C color
  • CINV color inverted
  • A alpha
  • AINV alpha inverted

  • alphamode <mode enum>;
    controls alpha separate from color blend. Only allowed in manual compiling (newpass mechanism)
    All combiners are listed in the "vid_texcombiners.txt" file. You can use custommodes and "from string" modes as well.
    Be aware that only alpha/inverted alpha is allowed as operand, and no support for DOT3? function.

  • Notes:
    • VID_REPLACE
      is default when the first blend is not a effect will mostly need multiple passes when drawn
    • _PREV
      is not allowed in first stage and will be changed to VID_DECAL

  • blendinvertalpha;
    this flag inverts the alpha used in AMODADD and DECAL blendmodes

Texture flags

  • texture coordinate generation modes
    • spheremap;
      turns the texcoord mapping into sphere mapped
    • screenmap;
      screen mapped texture generation
    • reflectmap;
      reflection mapped texture generation
    • worldlinmap;
      world linear mapped texture generation
      planes and coordinates are set with the texgenplane command
    • objlinmap;
      object linear mapped texture generation
      planes and coordinates are set with the texgenplane command
    • normalmap;
      normal mapped texture generation
    • skyreflectmap;
      special mode that uses reflection and skybox tracking, ideally for regular cubemap reflections
    • lightreflectmapX;
      X from 0 to 3. special mode that uses reflection and light tracking, mostly for specular cubemap reflections
    • lightnormalmapX;
      X from 0 to 3. special mode that uses normal and suntracking, mostly for custom cubemap lighting
    • sunreflectmap;
      same as lightreflectmap 0;
    • sunnormalmap;
      same as lightnormalmap 0;

  • nomipmap;
    will load texture without mipmapping.

  • vertexcolored;
    the current texture will be modulated with vertex colors (when first stage is a color stage set to REPLACE, and the second stage is texture stage set to MODULATE, then it is the same as texture stage set to REPLACE with "vertexcolored" on) auto-set when VTEX is used

  • rgbscale2;
    result of texture blending operation is scaled by 2 (should only be used in newpass mechanism)
  • rgbscale4;
    result of texture blending operation is scaled by 2 (should only be used in newpass mechanism)
  • alphascale2;
    result of texture blending operation is scaled by 2 (should only be used in newpass mechanism)
  • alphascale4;
    result of texture blending operation is scaled by 4 (should only be used in newpass mechanism)
  • lightmapscale;
    when LIGHTMAP is used we will use the lightmap texture's lightmapscale property.

  • depthcompare;
    texture must be a depthtexture, else errors will happen. Resulting pixel depends on R coordinate comparison with depthvalue.
  • depthvalue;
    texture must be a depthtexture, else errors will happen. Resulting pixel value of the depthtexture.

Texture functions

  • texcoord <uint channel>;
    channel 0 = default (2D), -1 = disables passing texcoords. Depending on vertex-type additional channels may exist.
    • vertex16color
      has no texture channels at all
    • vertex32lit
      has only channel 0
    • vertex32lm
      • 1 = (auto used for LIGHTMAP) (2D)
      • >1 = is 0 & 1 combined (4D)
    • vertex64
      • 1 = (auto used for LIGHTMAP) (2D)
      • 2 = (2D)
      • 3 = (2D)
      • 4 = 0 & 1 combined (4D)
      • 5 = 2 & 3 combined (4D)
  • texclamp (<X bool>,<Y bool>,<Z bool>);
    texture clamping (to edge) enabled for given axis. By default all are off and therefore set to repeat.
    Only applied to new loaded textures
  • texgenplane <axis uint> <vector4 plane>
    sets the texgen plane for each axis (0 = X, 1 = Y,...) for world/objlinmap.
    The planes defined in current used material supercede the shader values, but not which planes are used.
    Be aware that only following axis combinations are legal:
    • XY,XYW,XYZ,XYZW
  • param...;
    see functions below at GpuProgram, only VID_VALUE, VID_LIGHTCOLOR, VID_LIGHTDIR, VID_CAMDIR are supported and passed as TEXCONST

GpuProgram flags

  • tangents;
    means the program needs tangents as pervertex attrib
    tangents are stored in vertex.attrib15/texcoord7
  • normals;
    means the program needs normals as pervertex attrib

GpuProgram functions:

  • param "<name>" <uint id> <enum type> (<x float>,<y float>,<z float>,<w float>) [<uint upvalueA>] [<uint upvalueB>];
    A Parameter that can be controlled via material or directly with the shader. Be aware that for Cg having the same parameter
    names in multiple programs within the same pass is not recommended.
    For greater variety in parameters (integer,matrices..) and efficient control on per-frame basis, you can also use the shadercghostparam class inside luxinia.api.
    • name
      variable name
    • id
      id number for ARB_PROGRAMs, ignored for rest.
    • type
      what type of variable
      • VID_VALUE generic value, ie the 4 floats the user passes. If upvalueA == 1 then vector will be turned into localspace.
      • VID_ARRAY a float4 array, upvalueA is length of array and must be given.
      • VID_CAMPOS camera position, in localspace
      • VID_CAMDIR camera view direction, in localspace
      • VID_CAMUP camera up vector, in localspace
      • VID_LIGHTPOS upvalueA(th) light position (0..3) in localspace,
      • VID_LIGHTDIR light direction in localspace,
      • VID_LIGHTCOLOR light diffuse color
      • VID_LIGHTAMBIENT light ambient color
      • VID_LIGHTRANGE (range,1/range,range/2,1/range*range)
      • VID_RANDOM result is (rand1*range,rand2*range,rand3*range,range)
        rand are random numbers [0,1] that are consistent with a drawnode
        range is given by user <w>
      • VID_TIME time values result is(time*scale,sin(time*scale),cos(time*scale),scale)
        time is in milliseconds,scale is given by user <w>
      • VID_TEXCONST texture constant id, upvalueA from 0 to 7. Stage's color as in material is used.
      • VID_TEXMAT0 texture matrix row 0. upvalueA from 0 to 7 stage as defined in material. upvalueB == 1 worldmatrix 2 shared texmatrix 3 shared lightmapmatrix
      • VID_TEXMAT1 texture matrix row 1. see above.
      • VID_TEXMAT2 texture matrix row 2. see above.
      • VID_TEXMAT3 texture matrix row 3. see above.
      • VID_TEXGEN0 texturecoord generator row 0. upvalueA from 0 to 7 stage as defined in material. upvalueB == 1 worldmatrix 2 shared texmatrix 3 shared lightmapmatrix.
      • VID_TEXGEN1 texturecoord generator row 1. see above.
      • VID_TEXGEN2 texturecoord generator row 2. see above.
      • VID_TEXGEN3 texturecoord generator row 3. see above.
      • VID_TEXSIZE size of a texture in pixels, use <w> as scale factor. Output is (width*scale,height*scale,depth*scale,scale). upvalueA is texture unit, cubemaps have depth of 6
      • VID_TEXSIZEINV 1/(scaled size of a texture in pixels), upvalueA is texture unit
      • VID_TEXLMSCALE lightmap rgb scale value of a texture (1,2 or 4), upvalueA is texture unit

    • (x,y,z,w)
      the vector, will be overwritten when type is not VID_VALUE
      some special types will keep the <w float> as function value
    • upvalueA
    • upvalueB
      used as parameter for some types, optional.

DrawPass flags:

  • colorpass;
    renders without setting a new color untextured the model again.

DrawPass functions:

  • stateflag <enum type> <bool onoff>;
    Overrides active state (will supercede "force/ignoreflags" of active at layer). Some states are implicitly set.
    • type
      what type state renderflag is changed.
    • RENDER_BLEND framebuffer blending. (imp. blendmode)
    • RENDER_NOVERTEXCOLOR per-vertex color is ignored.
    • RENDER_ALPHATEST pixels can be rejcted by color alpha (imp. alphafunc)
    • 'RENDER_STENCILTEST pixels can be rejcted by stencil-buffer
    • RENDER_NODEPTHTEST pixels cannot be rejcted by z-buffer
    • RENDER_NOCULL back- and frontfaces are drawn
    • RENDER_FRONTCULL faces are not culled
    • RENDER_NOCOLORMASK disables writing to color buffer
    • RENDER_NODEPTHMASK disables wiriting to depth buffer
    • RENDER_STENCILMASK enables writing to stencil buffer
    • RENDER_LIT enables fixedfunction lighting (lightcount which picks gpuprogram remains unchanged).
    • onoff
      1 enforces setting this state
      0 disables/reverts the state if active.

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History

1st Draft 17.4.2004
This is just a basic idea about functionality. Shaders may change on implentation if too complex to a more rigid system with a hardcoded set of FX

2nd Draft 28.4.2004
moved stageflags to renderflags, moved alpha/blend to renderflag as well, this is easier to work with in OGL, but needs a new system for texture blending which needs to be done soon (mainly combine)

3rd Draft 1.5.2004
texture blending and combining is now set.

4th Draft 10.5.2004
added a new custom texmode called VID_COLORDECAL, removed GL_SUBTRACT cause it brings us in trouble with older systems. CBF to do workaround.

5th Draft 12.5.2004
okay texcombine is removed, instead there are fixed effect types possible for the combining of texlayers. depending on hardware I will create the proper texcombiners/multipass renders.

6th Draft 2.6.2004
it will stay as is, although multiple textures per shader may not work well on all hardware until a "brute force" rendering pipeline is part of the engine.

7th Draft 7.6.2004
added reflectmap,eyelinmap as texture coord generation mode

8th Draft 31.7.2004
blendfunc is not valid for all passes just the first pass (first tex + color) also added LITMODADD and ADDMOD modes

9th Draft 13.8.2004
added LITDECAL_VERTEX and DECAL_VERTEX modes

10th Draft 30.8.2004
added BUMP mode

11th Draft 2.8.2004
added SPECBUMP mode

12th Draft 27.9.2004
changed BUMP to NORMAL and SPECBUMP to SPECNORMAL

13th Draft 15.10.2004
LIT renamed to COLOR

14th Draft 18.10.2004
ALPHA as texture mode to upload greyscales added nocolorarray renderflag

15th Draft 20.10.2004
blendfunc taken out, heavy reorganisation of blends now part of every stage as blendmode

16th Draft 1.11.2004
added LowDetail? stage

17th Draft 6.12.2004
addded GPUProgram? and FXShader? stage, the latter is not implemented at all and the first doesnt allow DXPSA yet

18th Draft 10.12.2004
layer renderflag added, to allow user to mark certain surfaces to be rendered at certain times. allows Zsort, Glow, Haze, Top layer (thats also the order in which they are drawn) removed DXPSA gpuprog type

19th Draft 19.12.2004
modifers need a name to be accessible from gamecode

20th Draft 22.12.2004
added techniques and shaders "values" need to be put in () vectors separated by , special Textures allowed in higher techniques (skybox, normalize...) gpuprogram parameters will soon allow special values (campos, camdir..) to be auto linked with

21th Draft 29.12.2004
name is a unique identifier of the stage to allow easier access to stages from gamescript LIGHTMAP added

22nd Draft 23.2.2005
split shader into "shader/material" so that shader only contains info how textures are blend

23rd Draft 15.3.2005
added "skin" versions for vertex programs

24th Draft 31.3.2005
added "texcoord" to allow use of different texcoord channels

25th Draft 16.7.2005
added "lit" versions for gpu programs and entrynames

26th Draft 23.7.2005
added new Techniques for better hardware, also added new automatic shader parameters

27th Draft 6.1.2006
the NewPass? Stage is introduced to allow manual 'compiling'

28th Draft 27.5.2006
added .dds support

29th Draft 20.6.2006
sunreflectmap and sunnormalmap
added TEXDOTZ for special cubemaps

30th Draft 2.7.2006
lit renamed to sunlit
added alphaTEX

31st Draft 28.7.2006:
texture clamping and texgenplane added.
eyelinmap renamed to worldlinmap, objlinmap added as well.

32nd Draft 1.8.2006:
all combiners (alpha/color) are now accessible. alphamode was added
33rd Draft 10.8.2006:
added "preprocessor" branching

34th Draft 2.9.2006:
param for regular stages

35th Draft 25.12.2006:
param for regular stages got support for lightcolor/lightdir

36th Draft 31.1.2007:
normals; flag also added to RenderFlag?

37th Draft 17.3.2007:
added VIDTC texture combiner from string generation

38th Draft 6.4.2007:
shader parameters got an upvalue. Warning this renders some of the old VID_BLAHx versions illegal.

39th Draft 22.4.2007:
lightnormalmapX & lightreflectmapX added.

40th Draft 2.6.2007:
texchannel -1 disables passing texcoords

41th Draft 18.6.2007:
depthcompare and depthvalue flags added

42th Draft 21.6.2007:
compiled flag for cg programs

43th Draft 8.9.2007:
added shader parameter arrays

44th Draft 14.10.2007:
'nomipmap' added

45th Draft 30.10.2007:
'VID_MODULATE2' added

46th Draft 26.12.2007:
Cg 2.0 changes, version raised to 310, mandatory for Cg useage
VID_FOGCOLOR gpu param removed, FFIXED gpu type removed.
"|compiled" removed is done differently now
VID_CG Technique removed, Cg auto-parameter names for Particles changed.
VID_TEXSIZE, VID_TEXSIZEINV,VID_TEXLMSCALE as parameters and lowCgProfile added
shadercghostparam class in Luxinia api

47th Draft 24.1.2008:
proper block commenting with #{ ... #}

48th Draft 23.4.2008:
commenting now in C-Style, along with raised version number 310 now mandatory for all // and /* ... */ renamed VID_NORMALMAP to VID_NORMALMAPTAN

49th Draft 18.5.2008:
annotation system added

50th Draft 11.5.2008:
DUMMY texture added, texchannel 4 = 0&1 combined, 5 = 2&3 combined

51st Draft 24.9.2008:
renamed NewPass to DrawPass (old name remains backward compatible) added stateflag command to DrawPass, use of gpuprograms always disables blend-compiler added blendmode to RenderFlag RenderFlag is now a full "default copy" in luxinia, no longer does alphafunc in RenderFlag "override". However DrawPass states do. alphafunc removed from DrawPass

52nd Draft 15.11.2008:
VID_CG_SM3_TEX8 renamed to VID_CG_SM3, and VID_CG_SM4/VID_CG_SM4_GS added

53nd Draft 23.02.2009:
Cg Semantics added

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