2007年8月6日
nVIDIA FX Composer 2 Release
Finally!

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/fx_composer_home.html

Key Features of FX Composer 2

  • Cross-API Support
    • DirectX 9 and OpenGL
    • HLSL, COLLADA FX Cg, CgFX shading languages
  • User-Friendly Shader Authoring
    • Shader Creation Wizard with templates
    • Full-featured Code Editor
      • Code folding for functions, techniques and passes
      • Tab stop display
      • Line number display
      • External file modification monitoring
      • Jump-to-include files
    • Properties panel for tweaking shader parameters
      • High dynamic range color picker
    • Material panel for managing materials
      • Display of per-material textures
      • Tone mapping for per-material textures
    • Easy material creation and management interface
    • Hundreds of sample shaders
      • NVIDIA Shader Library integration
      • Sample projects ranging from simple to complex
    • Advanced scene manipulation
      • Create and manipulate basic geometric shapes, lights, and cameras
      • Import .3ds, .fbx, .dae, .x, .obj files
      • Drag-and-drop light binding
      • Drag-and-drop texture binding
      • Skinning and animation
    • Texture Viewer
      • Support for .dds, .jpg, .bmp, .png, .tif
      • Drag-and-drop textures onto object materials
    • mental mill™ Artist Edition
      • Artist-friendly visual shader authoring
      • Ability to export to FX Composer via CgFX and HLSL
    • Convenient Start Page
      • Recent projects
      • Quick Start Tutorial
      • Quick links to User Guide and other useful documentation
      • Single-click access to open effects and create new ones
      • Single-click access to open COLLADA documents
    • Integrated Shader Performance Tuning via NVIDIA ShaderPerf 2.0
      • Support for CgFX, COLLADA FX, and HLSL shaders
      • Compare shader techniques across multiple GPUs
      • View data in tables or graphs
      • See shader throughput, register usage, instruction counts, and branching performance
    • Convenient Pipeline Integration Features
      • Semantic and Annotation remapping
      • Advanced Scripting Support
        • Full Python scripting
        • Custom toolbar for scripting support
      • Extensible plug-in Architecture with SDK
    • Complete COLLADA support
      • Project and Asset Management (Project Explorer and Library Viewer)
        • Author COLLADA assets
        • Create and remove COLLADA documents
        • Move, delete, and copy COLLADA assets across COLLADA documents
        • View COLLADA assets by category
      • COLLADA format support
        • Material Instance Scene Binding
        • Material Instance Vertex Binding
        • Skinning
        • Triangulation with holes
        • Support for rendering COMMON Profiles
        • Vertex Stream Remapper
      • Conversion of CgFX to COLLADA FX Cg
    • Comprehensive Undo/Redo support
    • Comprehensive Documentation
      • User Guide
      • Quick Tutorial
posted @ 2007-08-06 16:38 eygneph 阅读(131) | 评论 (0) | 编辑
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