ID3DXBaseEffect :: GetVertexShader method

Take a look here.

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Original post by Gage64 Take a look here.

Already did. They didn't figure it out either :)

Sorry, guess I didn't look at it closely enough.

Probably a stupid question, but what happens if you just pass the shader name as the handle?

I tried the above myself, not surprisingly it didn't work.

After digging around for a bit, it seems like this works:

1) Create an ID3DXEffectCompiler.
2) call compiler->CompileShader(), which will give you an ID3DXBuffer containing the shader code.
3) Call device->CreateVertexShader() with the buffer from 2.

At least it seems to work in my code, and right now I can't think of anything better.

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Original post by Gage64 Sorry, guess I didn't look at it closely enough. Probably a stupid question, but what happens if you just pass the shader name as the handle?

No, it doesn't work.

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Original post by Gage64 I tried the above myself, not surprisingly it didn't work. After digging around for a bit, it seems like this works: 1) Create an ID3DXEffectCompiler. 2) call compiler->CompileShader(), which will give you an ID3DXBuffer containing the shader code. 3) Call device->CreateVertexShader() with the buffer from 2. At least it seems to work in my code, and right now I can't think of anything better.

This will add a lot of compilation...
Also, our shaders are cached in binary compiled state, so to get the constant tables I'll need to recompile them again - one time per shader in the effect.

For now I demoved the PURE flag of the device and just query Device::GetVertexShader after ID3DXEffect::Begin/BeginPass/CommitChanges.
Ugly, works for now, will wait if somebody say something more clever :)