How to capture shaders?

[Tim Murray]

I've seen numerous posts here that contain shader code that was captured from an application, and I'd like to know how it's done. I'm assuming it's something with the DX9 SDK, but I really have no idea.

Thanks.

 

[991060]

I think 3DAnalyzer can extract OGL shaders,don't know if it works with D3D application.

 

[tEd]

I think 3DAnalyzer can extract OGL shaders,don't know if it works with D3D application.

works also in D3D

 

[991060]

works also in D3D

very bad news for game developers,they can no longer protect their intellectual property by shader encryption.

what if the shader is writen in HLSL? Does 3DAnalyzer still extract the asm?

 

[Clootie]

Sure, HLSL is compiled to asm and passed to standart SetXxxShader API entry point.