Abstract
This chapter discusses shader tools and resources. It uses use RenderMonkey as the experimentation application. RenderMonkey is an extensible shader tool from ATI. It has some good and useful features, including a plugin interface so that one can write his/her own tools and multipass capabilities. It supports almost all the shader languages. The chapter discusses NVIDIA effects browser, which is another nifty tool that lets one explore the vertex and pixel shaders. NVIDIA also lets one program the register combiners on NVIDIA hardware directly. It comes with a huge palette of various samples of shaders for both DirectX and OpenGL. There is a collection of effects on the left side, any shaders or other setup is in the middle, and the effect itself is displayed on the right side. Further, tools like Shader Studio, ColorSpace tool are also discussed.
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