Cory Plotts’ Blog

Greg Schechter is continuing is series on shader effects … with his latest post being on multi-input shader effects.

Robby Ingebretsen has a great post on how useful these effects could be.

It is a great time to be a user interface centric developer in Microsoft technologies.

Graphics, Pixel Shader Effects

I was tearing my hair out, trying to figure out why my .fx file wasn’t compiling with fxc.

Eventually I figured out that if I saved the .fx file with a text editor (TextPad), fxc would just work … (previously I was saving this file using Visual Studio).

Ok, by chance I ran across Pavan Podila’s post on the matter. Ah, that’s why!

Apparently, the default encoding for text files is Unicode (UTF-8 with signature) – Codepage 65001 … and apparently fxc doesn’t compile .fx files if they have his encoding.

Argh! Wish I had seen that post sooner.

Some good news on the matter, however, is that the Visual Studio templates that Greg Schechter has posted on his blog … set the encoding to Western European (Windows) – Codepage 1252 … which does compile.

So, if you use these templates, you won’t have to think about it … which is a good thing.

Graphics, Pixel Shader Effects