A quick question about GLSL and other shading languages

[macron12388]

For any custom shaders, and since Irrlicht uses a native OpenGL backend, do the shaders have to be in the OpenGL shading language, how easy would it be to use something else?

I know there is an in-progress direct x interface for Irrlicht in another section of the forums, I think I have some idea of how to use that with Irrlicht, but I would like to hear some more experienced programmers/artists/programmer arists opinions on this.

[Bate]

I think you're mixing up some things here.

Aside from GLSL, HLSL support for Direct3D is integrated and fully functional long-since. You're probably talking about nVidia's API independent CG language implementation... If so, yes, that one is still in progress.

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[macron12388]

Ahhh, I see, okay, thanks for clearing things up for me!