Shaders

Shaders

dminikol 30 Oct 2012 14:48

Hello.

I have the only question related to the shaders topic. Does windows phone support them? If I'll wirte the game with custom effects will it work? I guess the answer is no. But just in case, I'll ask this question though.

Thank you in advance for your answers.

Re: Shaders

rbwhitaker 30 Oct 2012 14:53

I don't have a Windows phone, so I'm not 100% certain. (There's an emulator that you can get from Microsoft, but I haven't spent much time with it.) So hopefully someone else can actually confirm this for a fact.

But I don't have any reason to believe it won't work for the Windows phone. I'm pretty sure they're at least DirectX 9 compatible, which is all that would be required, I think. Microsoft says XNA works on the Windows phone, and to be missing HLSL shaders, in my opinion, would definitely violate that promise.

So while I can't promise that it for sure works at the moment, I'd be surprised if it doesn't.

Anyone else have any success (or failure) with this?

Re: Shaders

dminikol 30 Oct 2012 15:27

Thank you for your answer. As far as I know, Android phones from 2.x version, support shaders. But there is an OpenGl in use and it's not a windows phone =)

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Re: Shaders

rbwhitaker 30 Oct 2012 16:00

I wouldn't be surprised to discover that the Windows phone graphics card can use OpenGL, which would allow you to write GLSL/Cg, but I suspect that the route that you'll have the most success with is HLSL, since that's a DirectX thing.

When it comes to Android or iPhone, I have no clue if they support DirectX (I'd guess no) but I'm virtually certain that they both support OpenGL. But I thought we were just talking about Windows phones anyway. :)

Re: Shaders

dminikol 30 Oct 2012 17:38

Yep. We are talking of windows phones. I guess, I have to borrow one and check some simple effect. If it doesn't work, there is a BasicEffect class and workarounds.

Re: Shaders

rbwhitaker 30 Oct 2012 17:58

If BasicEffect works, then all shaders should work. Buried under the BasicEffect class is an HLSL shader. Hmm… I may be getting ahead of myself. Buried under the BasicEffect class on Windows and the Xbox is an HLSL shader. There's a 3% chance (yeah, I pulled that number out of thin air) that it's different on the Windows Phone.

When you try it out, it would be cool if you could come back here and report if it worked or not. Share the knowledge that you gain with your experiment. :)

Re: Shaders

dminikol 03 Nov 2012 14:40

It seems, that it works. I don't know how, but it works on the phone I borrowed. May be I just got luck =)