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I have started witting some shaders. First ones were fairly easy to write in notepad but now I need something with a bit more meat. I have checked rendermonnkey that seems to support CG but it is really old and don't know if it is a good option. On the other hand there exist this FX Composer 2.0 but it seems somthing that could really distract me from learning shaders because it seems a pretty deep program.

Are there any other possibilities? There's a really nice alternative to write shaders named ShaderToy but just supports GLSL.

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You may read "The CG Tutorial" book and try out their examples.

This book is also available online for free. I currently cannot find the link for downloading the book CD.

You can download CG toolkit for the compiler and exmaples also.

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Well, at this moment I'm using CG toolkit to compile, etc... what I would like to get is some kind of easy to use ide to have a realtime view of the shader, etc... As I said rendermonkey seems ok but it is from 2004 and I think it doesn't support CG. Any alternative? – Notbad Nov 22 '12 at 18:06

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