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HLSL shader optimization [closed]

The following HLSL shader (without preprocessing) results in 65 arithmetic operations (see below). Can the same effect achieved with <=64 operations? // Center of "light" float x; float y; // ...
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Need to combine a color, mask, and sprite layer in a shader

My task: to display a sprite using different team colors. I have a sprte graphic, part of which has to be displayed as a team color. The color isn't 'flat', i.e. it shades from brighter to darker. I ...
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How (if possible) would I change the BasicEffect Matrix mid draw

Say, for example, I have a list of enemies. Each enemy is a textured quad which is the stored in a singular shared VertexBuffer and IndexBuffer with the buffer usage set to BufferUsage.WriteOnly ...
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Some help understanding and modifying a 2D shader

I have a similar question as the one posed here, except that I don't wish to use a 1D Color Palette. I simply wish to have it display 1 color of my choosing (red, for example). I plan to use this ...
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Why is a fully transparent pixel still rendered?

I am trying to make a pixel shader that achieves an effect similar to this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1uZvurrhig&feature=related My basic idea is render the scene to a temp render ...
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How to achieve after-image pixel shader effect

How would one go about writing a pixel shader like this one in XNA 4.0? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1uZvurrhig&feature=related
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How to set TextureFilter to Point to make example Bloom filter work?

I have simple app that renders some particles and now I am trying to apply the bloom shader from the xna samplers ( http://create.msdn.com/en-US/education/catalog/sample/bloom ) to it, but I am ...
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Write to one channel of R16G16 texture on Xbox

I was going to draw my shadow map into one channel of a 16 bit texture and then draw a different shadow map into another channel of the same texture. I realized that this might not be possible to do ...
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Model in Blender GLSL to XNA HLSL

Is it possible to make model in Blender, with enabled GLSL, add multiple textures, etc, and then just load it in XNA, where's own HLSL? Will it work?
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C# XNA - Sky Sphere Question

I have been banging my head against the wall trying to get a sky sphere to work appropriately in XNA 4.0. I have the sphere loading correctly, and even textured, but i would like something a little ...
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Porting an HLSL 3.0 shader to 2.0?

I have a couple of .fx files from a Shader-Based 2D Shadows example. I want to utilize the same kind of technique with XNA 4.0's Reach profile, which if I understand correctly needs to have HLSL 2.0 ...