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Spherical procedural terrain shader based on slope

I've created a spherical terrain object out of 6 sphere projected (normalised) planes, each plane has been heightmapped post to being normalised. I'm looking to create a CG shader which will ...
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loading a heightmap as texture in shader

I have a height map of 256x256, containing, foreach cell, not only height as a normal float value ( not 0-1 ) and also 2 gradient values ( for X and Y ), also as normal float values ( not 0-1 ). I ...
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Does anybody know of any resources to achieve this particular “2.5D” isometric engine effect?

I understand this is a little vague, but I was hoping somebody might be able to describe a high-level workflow or link to a resource to be able to achieve a specific isometric "2.5D" tile engine ...
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Calculating vertex normals on the GPU

I have some height-map sampled on a regular grid stored in an array. Now, I want to use the normals on the sampled vertices for some smoothing algorithm. The way I'm currently doing it is as follows: ...