NVIDIA EFFECTS BROWSER

The Effects Browser from NVIDIA, shown in Figure 6.2, is another nifty tool that lets you explore with vertex and pixel shaders. It also lets you program the register combiners on NVIDIA hardware directly. It comes with a huge palette of various samples of shaders for both DirectX and OpenGL. As Figure 6.2 shows, there is a collection of effects on the left side, any shaders or other setup is in the middle, and the effect itself is displayed on the right side. It's available from http://developer.nvidia.com.

Figure 6.2: NVIDIA Effects Browser.