RenderMonkey vs FX Composer

Usually I just write shaders and try and use them in our engine.
If this really fails, I usually use RenderMonkey, mostly coz it's small and fast.

And if I need to "profile" the shader, I use FX Composer.

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Original post by compiler Which Tool for Shader Development do you use or prefer and why? RenderMonkey or FX Composer?

I use FX Composer, primarily because I thought that RM had a very clumsy interface (note that I only used RM years ago when the whole shader-IDE thing was just emerging).

I don't really require much out of a shader tool at all - basically, I just want to test for compilation problems. My shaders are too complex to have FX Composer render them correctly, and I don't really feel like trying to maintain all the annotations that would do so.

If you relocate RenderMonkey's start menu entry, it will decide that it has been uninstalled on next run, and recreate it.

So it's blacklisted by me. I refuse to use it.