Comments on: Update For The Past N Months http://drilian.com/2010/01/05/update-for-the-past-n-months/ Infrequently-updated ramblings about game development projects, ideas, and techniques Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:00:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Drilian http://drilian.com/2010/01/05/update-for-the-past-n-months/comment-page-1/#comment-134 Drilian Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:49:27 +0000 http://drilian.com/?p=433#comment-134 I didn't have much in the way of references. It was more of a concept of how I thought it should work to tie the pieces together. Essentially, every "node" that you add is a function with a series of float4 inputs and outputs (they're always 4 components for simplicity). Later, I'd added non-float4 "parameters" that you can control using the property grid. As for building the editor, yeah, I used the standard System.Drawing functionality to do all of the drawing. I used SlimDX to interface with D3D, which allowed me to save the GPU-generated textures to a stream, and then read them into a System.Imaging.Bitmap, and then display that in the grid. I didn’t have much in the way of references. It was more of a concept of how I thought it should work to tie the pieces together. Essentially, every “node” that you add is a function with a series of float4 inputs and outputs (they’re always 4 components for simplicity). Later, I’d added non-float4 “parameters” that you can control using the property grid.

As for building the editor, yeah, I used the standard System.Drawing functionality to do all of the drawing. I used SlimDX to interface with D3D, which allowed me to save the GPU-generated textures to a stream, and then read them into a System.Imaging.Bitmap, and then display that in the grid.

]]> By: Bruno http://drilian.com/2010/01/05/update-for-the-past-n-months/comment-page-1/#comment-133 Bruno Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:46:08 +0000 http://drilian.com/?p=433#comment-133 Hi, I'm trying to make a similar tool for building and editing shaders in C#. Could you tell me what were the articles, books or references you used to make yours? Did you use just GDI+ for drawing the elements? Thanks. Hi, I’m trying to make a similar tool for building and editing shaders in C#. Could you tell me what were the articles, books or references you used to make yours? Did you use just GDI+ for drawing the elements? Thanks.

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