On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:16 AM, Byron Mallett <byrona...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm working on writing some shaders for a machinima testbed I'm working on > at the moment, primarily trying to port over some depth of field shaders > I've seen over on the ATI site. > > However, I'd love to be able to debug my shader while it is running, since > all I'm getting at the moment is a uniformly grey screen. I've tried using > the Pix utility in the DirectX sdk but it tells me that Direct3D analysis is > disabled in HL2. > > Is there any way to see the values that the shader is using at runtime? At > the moment I'm trying to throw in random numbers for the focus variables > that I'm using but to no avail.
What I did was returning "debugged" variable in pixel shader output. I had one big switch of DEBUG dynamic combo. Code that has to be changed to enable PIX is in the engine and can't be enabled/changed. That's just wonderful support for modders. If you want to make a "mod" using a complicated shader (which will require debugging sooner or later) you need an engine license. Long story short switching to UDK/NeoAxis/Ogre+toys is a much better choice. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
