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Started by c-mos Jun 10, 2009 at 2:31 PM 2 replies 750+ views

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Jun 10, 2009 at 2:31 PM

Hello, i've seen in some shader examples that ppl use this for instance float4 color : TEXCOORD1 float4 pos : TEXCOORD2; My question is, why do they use the TEXCOORD indexes ? For color you usually use COLOR, or COLOR0...COLORn kind regards, c-mos

HuntsMan

Jun 10, 2009 at 3:29 PM

Because they're using a texture coordinate as a color, for shaders, it's just a convention. It's the same as passing with another indexer.

Edge Damodred

Jun 10, 2009 at 4:22 PM

Hardware registers were originally intended only for certain types of data. Since data in those registers is going to get interpolated across a primitive it allowed an easy way for doing algorithms on a per fragment level instead of a per vertex level. By sending the position through as a texture coordinate through the vertex shader more accurate positions for the fragment shader are generated because you get the point between points. The standard rasterizer is going to interpolate color and texture coordinates(0-15). More recent hardware may allow the use of generic registers for interpolating values across a primitive.

c-mos

Jun 11, 2009 at 1:44 AM

Thank you,
i think i understood.

c-mos

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