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Category: Shaders

There are two popular text-based ".*fx" formats. Both formats are extremely similar.

• .fx is for DirectX only, and is based on HLSL.
• .cgfx is for use with either DirectX or OpenGL, and is based on Cg.

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Popular 3ds Max Shaders

• Brice Vandemoortele and Cedric Caillaud's BRDF shader for Maya has been ported to 3ds Max by Christoph "CrazyButcher" Kubisch. More info in the Polycount thread Free Maya/max cgfx/fx Shader. Update: New version here with many updates, including object-space normal maps, relief mapping, self-shadowing, etc.
• Laurens "Xoliul" Corijn's 3ds Max viewport shader. More info in the Polycount thread TF2 and TOON realtime viewport shader (3ds max).
• Till "Rollin" Maginot's TF2 Shader for 3ds Max and Toon/Comic Shader for 3ds Max. More info in the Polycount thread TF2 and TOON realtime viewport shader (3ds max).
• The Snow and Ice of Uncharted2? from the Polycount forums describes how to use blendmodulate to blend textures together.

Popular Maya Shaders

• Brice Vandemoortele and Cedric Caillaud's BRDF shader for Maya has also been ported to 3ds Max by Christoph "CrazyButcher" Kubisch. More info in the Polycount thread Free Maya/max cgfx/fx Shader. Update: New version here with many updates, including object-space normal maps, relief mapping, self-shadowing, etc.
• Kostas "Kodde" Gialitakis' Maya CG shader also supports a BRDF map. More info in the Polycount thread "KoddeShader", a Maya CGFX shader.

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