|
NVIDIA Cg 2.1 October 2008 README Copyright (C) 2002-2008 NVIDIA Corp.
================================= This distribution contains -------------------------- - NVIDIA Cg toolkit documentation in the docs directory - NVIDIA Cg compiler (cgc) in the bin directory - NVIDIA Cg runtime libraries in the lib directory - Example Cg applications in the examples directory - Under Microsoft Windows, a Cg language syntax highlighter for Microsoft Visual Studio is provided in the msdev_syntax_highlighting directory - Under Microsoft Windows, if selected at install time, 64-bit binaries and libraries are in the bin.x64 and lib.x64 directories. See the release notes (docs/CgReleaseNotes.pdf) for detailed information about this release. The Cg toolkit is available for a number of different hardware and OS platforms. As of this writing, supported platforms include: - Microsoft NT 4, 2000, and Windows XP & Vista on IA32/x86/x86-64 (Intel, AMD) - Linux on IA32/x86 (Intel, AMD) - Linux for x64 (AMD64 and EMT64) - MacOS X 10.4 and 10.5 (Tiger and Leopard) - Solaris (x86) Visit the NVIDIA Cg website at http://developer.nvidia.com/page/cg_main.html for updates and complete compatibility information. Changes since Cg 2.0 -------------------- - New features - New translation profiles for DirectX10 Shader Model 4 - Shader source virtual file system for compilation - Callback for providing shader source included by the compiler - Improved handling of generic attributes by the GLSL profile - Added more 'clip' functions for improved compatibility with HLSL - TEXCOORD8-15 now available in vs/ps 3.0 profiles - Solaris release in Sun package format - Performance improvements and bug fixes - Fixed sampler initialization by the GLSL profile - Fixed handling of integer parameters values - Fixed handling of interpolation modifiers - New examples - Direct3D10/advanced/cgfx_buffer_lighting - Direct3D10/basic/02_vertex_and_fragment_program - Direct3D10/basic/03_uniform_parameter - Direct3D10/basic/04_varying_parameter - Direct3D10/basic/05_texture_sampling - Direct3D10/basic/06_vertex_twisting - Direct3D10/basic/07_two_texture_accesses - Direct3D10/basic/cgfx_buffer - Direct3D10/basic/cgfx_simple - Direct3D10/basic/cgfx_texture - OpenGL/advanced/generic_attribs - OpenGL/advanced/include_string - OpenGL/basic/23_bump_map_floor - New documentation - Updated reference manual for new profiles and entry points |