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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Does Dark Basic Pro support shaders written in ASM ?

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Juggernaut
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Posted: 8th Apr 2012 11:41
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Hello,

Does Dark Basic Pro support loading and application of shaders written in ASM ?

If not are there any plugins available to achieve it ? Any suggestions of work around - without doing code conversion ?

Thanks,
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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 8th Apr 2012 14:02
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Yes.

There are examples of such shaders on the old "Ultimate Shader" threads (there are two threads).

One is linked to here

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I'm not sure but I think some of the shaders in the "Ultimate Shader Pack" are written in asm as well.

Most people here use HLSL so you'll find it hard to get help if things go wrong. Why do you want to use asm rather than HLSL?
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Juggernaut
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Posted: 8th Apr 2012 15:49
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@Green Gandalf: Thank you for pointing me to the right direction. I will look into it.
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Posted: 8th Apr 2012 19:27
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Isn't programming in ASM GPU specific? Or do all GPUs use the same instruction set and therefore all share the same assembler language?

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Quote: "Isn't programming in ASM GPU specific?"


No - it's part of DirectX, etc. It's possible that the final machine code passed to the GPU is GPU specific but I've no idea about the details at that level. Also different GPUs will have different features available but as far as I'm aware they all use the same asm code at the application level.

In the good old days () you could write your own versions of assembly language and your own compiler - but your assembly code would have to be compiled to machine or processor specific machine code.
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