Nvidia NVSDK 5.2!

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NVIDIA is proud to release the NVSDK5.2, an upgrade to the major components of the developer's toolkit. The NVEffectsBrowser 3.0 has been expanded and now you will find hundreds of effects and permutations of the latest graphics effects possible with NVIDIA GPUs.

Nvidia NVSDK5.2

NVIDIA is proud to release the NVSDK5.2, an upgrade to the major components of the developer's toolkit. The NVEffectsBrowser 3.0 has been expanded and now you will find hundreds of effects and permutations of the latest graphics effects possible with NVIDIA GPUs. The browser also enables you to pull down updates across the web, from our CVS server, keeping you up to date with effects and documentation additions.

Particularly important advancements in the NVSDK brings effects such as brushed metal, shadowing, clouds, water and fluid visualization, explosions, dynamic normal maps, and updates to our tools and utilities, along with a wealth of up-to-date documentation.

NVSDK - OpenGL

Latest OpenGL Specifications for the GeForce4 family
OpenGL Fluid Visualization Demo
Vertex Shader to Vertex Program conversion tool
NV Pixel Format 1.0
NVParse
OpenGL Pixel Formats and Multisample AA whitepaper

NVSDK ? DirectX8

Rolling Cloud Effect using projected textures
Explosion effect using Vertex Shaders
Brushed Metal with Pixel Shaders
NVASM updated to support 1.2 and 1.3 pixel shaders
NVTristrip updated and optimized
Direct3D Hardware shadow mapping example

Download NVSDK5.2 OpenGL and DirectX content in a full sdk installer (140 Megs)



Nvidia NVEffectsBrowser 3.0

The NVEffectsBrowser has added a web-update feature, allowing you to easily stay in sync with advances in the NVSDK, in the form of new and updated tools and effects. Using a CVS server we are able deliver both the newest effects, but also updates to our OpenGL and DirectX SDKs. Simply choose your options, and let the update take over ? the new effects will be marked in blue. Additionally, there are a number of new effects, like explosions, clouds and brushed metal, that we?ve included in this release. We've also added various filtering capabilities.

This application loads and displays our DirectX and OpenGL effects along with their vertex and/or pixel shader code. This application is required to view our various effects .dlls

Note: NVEffectsBrowser is compatible with Win98 and Win2K. It requires DirectX8.0 in order to run, hence it is not supported under NT4.0. Also, it has not yet been extensively tested on WinXP.

Download NVEffectsBrowser 3.0