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Maya CGFX Shaders and Related Files

Shader-Related Files

	[MORE]  cgfxShader.mll	DOWNLOAD
	The CGFX Plugin that ships with Maya is functional, but lacks a few little polishes make actually using it a pleasant experience. When you tell the plugin node what shader you want to load, it create any needed input file textures, but they're all named file1, file2, file3, etc. This isn't very artist friendly, so I added a bit to the plugin so it renames the file nodes to tell you what shader they're connected to and to what input - eg. treeShader_diffuseMap

	[MORE]  cgShaderHighlighter.chl	DOWNLOAD
	If you plan on writing a lot of shaders and don't have some sort of context-highlighting text editor, I recommend ConText - and I've already written this highlighter for CGFX.

 

Interesting Shaders

	[MORE]  alx_char_uber.cgfx	DOWNLOAD
	This is my uber character shader. It features: - Regular Color, Normal, Specular, Glossy, and Ambient Occlusion Maps - Cubic Reflection and Ambient Light - 1 Directional light for highlights, Blinn model for specularity - It has an alpha technique, although Maya doesn't sort that well It gets me what I want for characters inside of Maya, however, it's certainly not optimized for real-time use, unless you are making a game with few character on screen at once. Just a quick warning on this one - all the comments have been stripped out by a preprocessor. I use a lot of #include statements, and they don't play well with Maya.

 

Not Very Interesting Shaders, (But Useful as examples for Learning Purposes)
Sometimes people ask me for help learning to write shaders. I thought I'd put up some simple examples for regular artists who want to learn to write shaders for Maya.

	[MORE]  alx_outputColor.cgfx	DOWNLOAD
	This is a quick example shader that will work in Maya 7.0 and output an unlit, hardcoded color.

	[MORE]  alx_outputUserColor.cgfx	DOWNLOAD
	This is a quick example shader that will work in Maya 7.0 and output an unlit, user-defined color.

	[MORE]  alx_outputVertexColor.cgfx	DOWNLOAD
	This is a quick example shader that will work in Maya 7.0 and output the unlit vertex colors on your object.