| The verifier is a command line utility that will verify shader files. |
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| This utility is used to verify that a shader will compile when given |
| to O3D to render. On Windows, it will test-compile the given shader |
| with both Cg and HLSL compilers. On Mac and Linux platforms, it will |
| only compile using Cg (since DirectX isn't available on those |
| platforms). This will help users on Windows verify that their shaders |
| will run when displayed on Mac or Linux platforms, and will help |
| everyone verify that their shaders compile. |
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| If an output file is specified, it can be used to convert shaders to a |
| form that can be used directly in O3D. It strips out unneeded blocks |
| (like the technique/pass blocks) and replaces them with the O3D |
| comments which describe the shader entry points. |
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| The command line arguments are as follows: |
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| Usage: o3dVerifier.exe [--no-condition] <infile.fx> [ <outfile.fx> ] |
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| --no-condition: This will prevent conditioning of the shaders into the |
| form expected by O3D. Specifying this causes the |
| verifier to ignore any output file specified (since |
| that would just be copying the file, and not doing any |
| conditioning). This option is useful only for |
| verifying pre-conditioned shaders. |
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| <infile.fx>: This is the input filename of the shader to be validated. |
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| <outfile.fx>: An optional argument giving the name of the desired |
| output location of the conditioned shader file in the |
| form expected by O3D. If you don't specify this, then |
| no output is created. |
