An ati alternative to Register Combiners?

OpenGL OpenGL: Advanced Coding
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about adding per-pixel lighting/dot3 bumpmapping to my engine. I’ve looked at a few tutorials but they all seem to use the nVidia specific register combiners. I know there’s gotta be an alternative for ati users. Can someone please help?

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There’s this GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 for just dot3 operation. For something more comparable (and actually superior) to reg combiners you have GL_ATI_fragment_shader.

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A lot more superior IMO. Combiners are a nightmare. ATI’s fragment shaders are a lot more comparable to a real language, so easier to understand and to use…

Y.

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and of course, if you want to be modern:
implement GL_ARB_fragment_program and GL_ATI_text_fragment_shader. makes it even more easy (at least, both use the same code except the actual shader text…)

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i have assembled a little demo for card-independent dot3-bumpmapping using the ARB-extension.
http://www.andre-krause.net/tutorials/opengl_dot3_bumpmapping/dot3_bumpmapping_demo.zip