it`s like so damn rude you open the dir of an ATi demo and you see Nvidia corp on the files, WTF?! couldnt they converted the shaders to HLSL or something?
it's part of the engine i guess. I'm not sure how much they still use cg these days, pretty sure they use/used it to develop the opengl shaders of the engine and may also used it for some nvidia shader path in d3d
all crytek shaders are wirten in CG so they have to use it, but they convert it on the spot to some thing that will compile well on ATi hardware...
but i don`t understand why couldn`t they "go the extra mile" and convert the shaders up front.
Assuming the demo works the same as Far Cry the game, they compile the shaders for D3D with the fxc.exe (from DX SDK) there and for OpenGL with cgc.exe. Why they chose to include those is beyond me though.
I think HLSL compiler was used, I got warnning in the log file saying some shaders about the ocean can not be properly compiled by fxc.exe, and because of this, the water looks like crap on my 6800. :?
but is it just compiling error or image corruption due to pp on complex shaders?
i got some comp errors in my log file to, but no visable artifacts of any sort...
