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| Introduction | |
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| From the Ground Up | |
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| Welcome to the World of Shaders | |
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| Prerequisites | |
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| Vertex and Pixel Shader Pipelines and Capabilities | |
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| Tool Overview | |
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| RenderMonkey | |
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| Microsoft Texture Tool | |
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| NVIDIA Photoshop Plug-In | |
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| 3D Studio Max | |
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| Microsoft Effect Editor | |
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| NVIDIA's Cg Toolkit | |
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| It's Your Turn! | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| The Art of 3D | |
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| From the Ground Up | |
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| Looking at Our Universe | |
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| Translation Matrix | |
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| Scale Matrix | |
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| Rotation Matrix | |
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| Viewing It from a Camera | |
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| Under the Hood | |
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| 3D APIs | |
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| OpenGL | |
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| DirectX and Direct3D | |
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| Which One Is Better? | |
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| Hardware Architecture | |
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| Shaders | |
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| It's Your Turn! | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| RenderMonkey Version 1.5 | |
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| Introduction to RenderMonkey | |
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| Our First Look at RenderMonkey | |
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| Autopsy of a Shader | |
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| It's Your Turn! | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Getting Started, Your First Shaders | |
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| Your First Shader | |
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| Texturing Your Object | |
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| Seeing Double | |
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| It's Your Turn! | |
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| Animating a Texture | |
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| Blending two Textures | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Screen Effects | |
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| Looking Through a Filter | |
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| Rendering to a Sketchpad | |
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| Texture Coordinates | |
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| Finally Rendering Your Render Target | |
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| Don't Adjust Your TV! | |
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| Black and White, Like in the Old Times | |
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| Generalizations Are Good! | |
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| Things Are Not Always Linear | |
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| Blurring Things Up | |
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| Bring on the Filters | |
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| Motion Blur | |
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| Building the Motion Blur Shader | |
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| It's Your Turn! | |
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| Old Time Movie | |
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| Gauss Filter | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Blurring Things Up | |
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| What Is Depth of Field? | |
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| It's All About Faking It! | |
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| Blurring Things, Take Two | |
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| Depth Impostors | |
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| A Note About Z-Buffers | |
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| Using the Alpha Channel | |
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| A Note About Multiple Render Targets | |
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| Doing It Twice | |
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| What About the Z-Buffer? | |
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| Special Considerations | |
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| It's Your Turn! | |
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| Multiple Impostors | |
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| Using a Lookup Texture | |
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| Using Intermediate Blur Textures to Create a Smoother Transition | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| It's Getting Hot in Here | |
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| What Is Heat Haze? | |
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| Uses for Heat Haze | |
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| It's All About Distortion Maps | |
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| Putting a Background to Your Shader | |
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| Hitting the Pavement | |
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| Looking Above the Flame | |
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| It's Your Turn! | |
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| Your Own Refraction Shader | |
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| Making it More Lively | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Making Your Day Brighter | |
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| What Is High Dynamic Range? | |
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| Glare | |
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| Streaks | |
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| Lens Flares | |
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| A Few HDR Basics | |
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| What About Floating-Point Textures? | |
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| Exposure Control: The First Step | |
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| A Note on Automatic Exposure Control | |
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| Time for Some High Dynamic Range Effects | |
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| Your First HDR Shader: The Glare! | |
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| Time for Some Streaking! | |
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| Lens Flare Free-for-All | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Solutions for Today's Hardware | |
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| It's Your Turn! | |
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| Using a Big Filter | |
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| Streaking on Today's Hardware | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Making It Look Real | |
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| May There Be Light | |
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| Of Light and Magic | |
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| What Makes Light in the First Place | |
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| Types of Lights | |
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| Directional Light | |
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| Point Lights | |
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| Spot Lights | |
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| Area Lights | |
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| Let's Get Shading | |
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| Ambient Lighting | |
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| Diffuse Lighting | |
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| Specular Lighting | |
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| Putting It Together | |
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| It's Your Turn! | |
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| Direction Lights | |
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| Animating Lights | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Shiny Little Pixels | |
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| Why Isn't Vertex Lighting Enough? | |
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| Basic Pixel Lighting | |
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| Diffuse Lighting | |
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| Specular Lighting | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Giving You Goose Bumps | |
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| Bumpmapping | |
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| Tangent Space | |
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| Normal Maps | |
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| It's Your Turn! | |
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| Direction Lights | |
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| Multiple Lights | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall | |
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| From Reflections to Refractions | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Refraction | |
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| Walking Hand in Hand | |
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| Building Dynamic Environment Maps | |
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| It's Your Turn! | |
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| Doing it All Per-Pixel | |
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| Color-Based Refraction | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Not All Materials Are the Same | |
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| BRDFs Are Your Friends | |
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| Soft and Velvety | |
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| Determining BRDFs | |
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| Oren-Nayer Velvet | |
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| It's Your Turn! | |
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| Using Lookup Textures | |
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| Multiple BRDFs | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Building Materials from Scratch | |
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| Turning Up the Noise! | |
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| Clouds, Clouds in the Sky | |
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| Wood and Marble | |
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| Using Noise to Move Things Around | |
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| It's Your Turn! | |
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| Animating Clouds | |
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| Rendering Strata | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Why Does It Always Need to Look Real? | |
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| Just Like a Television Cartoon | |
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| Outline Rendering | |
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| Other Outlining Ideas | |
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| Toon Shading | |
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| Real-Time Hatching | |
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| It's Your Turn! | |
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| Depth-Based Outline | |
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| Silhouette and Toon Shading | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Advanced Topics | |
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| Watch Out for That Morning Fog | |
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| The Basics of Fog | |
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| Hardware Fog | |
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| Not Just Your Everyday Fog | |
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| Giving Your Fog a Little Depth | |
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| Rendering the Atmosphere | |
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| It's Your Turn! | |
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| Round Fog | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Moving Objects Around | |
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| Light, Camera, Action! | |
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| Object Metamorphosis | |
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| Of Skin and Bones | |
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| It's Your Turn! | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Advanced Lighting | |
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| Outdoor Scene Lighting | |
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| Some General Approaches | |
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| Hemisphere Lighting Model | |
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| Polynomial Texture Maps | |
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| Combining BRDF and Bumpmapping | |
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| Building the Shader | |
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| Spherical Harmonics | |
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| The Basic Idea | |
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| Lighting with Spherical Harmonics | |
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| It's Your Turn! | |
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| Per-Pixel Spherical Harmonics | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Shadowing | |
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| The Basics of Shadows | |
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| Shadow Mapping | |
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| Shadow Volumes | |
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| Taking Advantage of the Hardware | |
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| It's Your Turn! | |
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| Soft Shadow Mapping | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Geometry Tricks | |
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| Level of Detail | |
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| Static LOD | |
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| Progressive LOD | |
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| Re-Creating Lost Details | |
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| Displacement Mapping | |
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| It's Your Turn! | |
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| Summary | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| High-Level Shader Language Reference | |
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| Data Types | |
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| Scalar Types | |
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| Vector Types | |
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| Matrix Types | |
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| Structure Types | |
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| Predefined Types | |
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| Typecasts | |
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| Variables | |
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| Statements | |
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| Expressions | |
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| Functions | |
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| User-Defined Functions | |
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| Built-In Functions | |
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| RenderMonkey Version 1.5 User Manual | |
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| Installation | |
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| Requirements | |
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| Installing RenderMonkey | |
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| Using RenderMonkey | |
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| Application Toolbar | |
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| Application Menu | |
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| Workspace View | |
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| Application Preferences | |
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| Modules | |
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| Where Do We Go from Here? | |
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| What's on the CD | |
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| Source Code | |
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| RenderMonkey | |
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| High Resolution Illustrations | |
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| DirectX 9.0 SDK | |
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| NVIDIA Texture Library | |
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| NVIDIA Photoshop Plug-In | |
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| Exercise Solutions | |
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| Shader Library | |
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| Basic Components | |
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| Object Transformation and Projection | |
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| Basic Texturing | |
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| Color Modulation | |
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| Depth Encoding and Decoding | |
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| Screen Effects | |
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| Rendering to a Full Screen Quad | |
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| Color Matrix | |
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| Basic Filtering Pixel Shader | |
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| Box Blur Filter | |
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| Gauss Blur Filter | |
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| Edge Detection Filter | |
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| Lighting | |
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| Diffuse Lighting | |
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| Specular Lighting | |
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| Tangent Space Lighting | |
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| Per-Pixel Bumpmapping | |
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| Polynomial Texture Mapping | |
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| Spherical Harmonics | |
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| Reflection and Refraction | |
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| Reflection | |
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| Refraction | |
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| Materials | |
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| Velvet | |
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| Oren-Nayer Lighting | |
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| Basic Perlin Noise | |
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| Marble and Wood Noise Materials | |
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| Index | |