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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. About FX Composer ......................................................................................1
1.1.
System Requirements ............................................................................................ 3
1.2.
References and Recommended Reading .................................................................. 3
Chapter 2. Using FX Composer .......................................................................................4
2.1.
Panels .................................................................................................................. 4
2.1.1.
Materials Panel............................................................................................... 7
2.1.2.
Textures Panel ............................................................................................. 10
2.1.3.
Properties Panel ........................................................................................... 11
2.1.4.
Shader Perf Panel ......................................................................................... 13
2.1.5.
Scene Panel ................................................................................................. 13
2.1.6.
Scene Graph Panel ....................................................................................... 17
2.2.
Editing Area ........................................................................................................ 18
Chapter 3. Full Scene Effects........................................................................................20
Chapter 4. Miscellaneous Hints and Tidbits… ..............................................................21
4.1.
FX Composer Projects and Packages ..................................................................... 21
4.1.1.
FX Composer Package Files ........................................................................... 21
4.1.2.
Projects (.fxproj) .......................................................................................... 22
4.1.3.
XML Data..................................................................................................... 22
4.2.
Configuration Files ............................................................................................... 23
4.3.
Mesh Sections ..................................................................................................... 24
4.4.
Semantics & Annotations...................................................................................... 24
Tutorial #1 Measuring and Managing Shader Performance with FX Composer .........25
Sources of Performance Information ................................................................................ 25
Try It Yourself: The PerfTutor.fx Shader .......................................................................... 26
Looking at the Shader Perf Panel.................................................................................. 28
GPU Efficiency ............................................................................................................ 28
Shader Passes ............................................................................................................ 29
Tweaking the Code ..................................................................................................... 29
Frames per Second ..................................................................................................... 30
Moving Forward ............................................................................................................. 30
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