Shaders and Shiny pictures!!

First, a very big Hello to the garageGames community - "HELLO!!"

This being my first official GG blog post, I thought I'd start with a bang! So lets get down to business...
(If it matters, for an introduction, you can visit my profile :P)

I'm a rather recent addition to the garagegames community. I've owned TGE 1.5 for like 6 months, and am already deeply in love with it. The only nag I've heard people constantly put forth(by people I mean those from outside the GG community, like on DevMaster, GD.net etc.) is that TGE lacks programmable pipeline functionality, and when given the option of the "costlier" TGEA, they claim it's largely untested/ buggy/ has no cross-platform support/ (your crib here).

So the best way to satisfy these people is - to implement shader technology for TGE!!

Using a slightly modified version of the (fantastic) modernization kit and a bit of my own code, here it is folks, my first DTS shader tests!!

First, a video showing the tests: Shader video

For those of you who are lazy to download it, here are the mandatory Shiny pictures!!

1. Cel/toon shading






2. Per-pixel lighting





I'm working on getting bump-mapping working next, so look out for more shiny-pictures soon!!

So yeah, there goes my first GG blog post... yay!