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"Any good (i.e. cheap) shader programming resources??"

If anyone knows any let me know. I've gotten into learning shader assembly to further my career but am struggling to find the theory behind what you can actually do with them, so if anyone knows of anything let me know.

Anyone with a pdf of Shaderx get in touch too, I'm too skint to be able to afford it until I start my full time job ;-).

I have some shader programming pdf's, including the ones I suspect you want. If you want me to email them over just give me your address, but they're 23MB compressed.

They make you validate your version Windows with their new fangled authentication software before you can download it, which funnily enough, my "version" of XP doesn't like :-D.

I'll need to get someone I know, maybe my girlfriend to get it and put it on a CD :-).

I'm still using the DX 2004 SDK, so no idea there. To be honest, I don't use DX anymore so there's no need. What's up with it though?

I bought Learn Vertex and Shader Programming with DirectX9. It just covers the assembly instruction sets for the two though, doesn't actually work through any algorithms for materials or the like to begin working with.

I did download RenderMonkey from the ATI site and had a look at their demos. I can't get the Nvidia SDK to run because I can't download the latest version of the DirectX SDK, anyone who has tried recently might know why ;-).

I also got my hands on a pdf of ShaderX, saves me £50 and it turns out that the only tutorial on setting up DirectX to handle shaders on gamedev is the first section of the shaderx book, so at least I've got my base application set up, just need some meshes and shaders to work through now.

Buy a dedicated book, or visit a library and order the newest copy of one to rent out. Flipcode had some stuff on it, but no longer :(

Google will reveal all, of course.

Bonus wrote:
> because the engine
> framework I've written renders in DX9.

Then the SDK examples are the best way to go.

I'll move into opengl and cg eventually, I'm looking at DX9, HLSL and some shader model 2.0 assembly at the moment because the engine framework I've written renders in DX9.

NEHE might be more what you're looking for.

[URL]http://nehe.gamedev.net/data/lessons/lesson.asp?lesson=47[/URL]

gamedev.net doesn't have all that much in the way of graphics algorithms.

I do have realtime rendering which I could use the algorithms from and program, but I'm just starting out on writing shaders and wanted some easy to do stuff, not jumping into vertex manipulation for good looking skinning etc.

I suppose I could do some nice water rippling effects, or particle systems such as fire.

Gamedev.net
Directx9c SDK

Apparantly the shaderx bookm isn't the best.