By Sebastien St-Laurent
ISBN 0-9766132-1-2
Jan 2006 (896 pages)

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...lled by the function to indicate the number of passes associated to the current technique. The Flags parameter determines if state modi.ed by an effect is saved and restored. The default value of zero speci. es that ID3DXEffect::Begin and ID3DXEffect::End will save and restore all state modi. ed by ...

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...r settings within a set of ID3DXEffect::BeginParameterBlockand ID3DXEffect::EndParameterBlock function calls. This will give you back a handle to the parameter block which can be applied to the current effect at any time using the ID3DXEffect::ApplyParameterBlock function call. Below is a simple ex...

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ret End of either a subroutine or main. 1 Flow Control

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...two components of this dot product are the surface normal and light vector. Vectors will interpolate correctly when put in on a per-vertex basis. This means you can calculate them ahead of time for each vertex and pass them on to the pixel shader, which will take care of computing the .nal dot prod...

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...ch parameter that contains a script must have at least one Script or ScriptSetup annotation attached. Script commands are executed every time the effect is used for rendering. ScriptSetupcommands are executed only once as part of initialization of the effect. Execution of each script always begins a...