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5. Phenomena P h e n o m e n o n A shader graph bundled u p w i t h a name and a defined set of i n p u t parameters and an o u t p u t serving the same function as a shader in the scene file. Prog 185, 3. Using and Writing Shaders N o w that w e have an idea of h o w shaders are used in a scene in mental ray, we'll take a look at h o w an individual shader is defined as a function in the C p r o g r a m m i n g language. 3. shaders and the parameters chosen for the shader. Now we'll see how these concepts are implemented in C.

7. Shader Versioning 2. Version function As we saw in Chapter 4, the declarations of shaders used by the scene file contain a version number. The version function in the C source file allows mental ray to guarantee that the scene file declaration and the arguments of the C file are the same. 5. Shader Parameter Declarations 3. Parameter structure The parameter structure is typically defined in the same source file as the shader function which uses it as a data type for its parameter argument. 4.

2: A shader that provides the color supplied as an input If the shader also modifies the input color before providing it to the material, then we can think of developing a set of shaders that define standard ways of processing colors to produce a new ones. 3: Modifying an input color to produce a new color But this shader is as limited in its own way as the shader that only defined a color was—the process that manipulates the color can't be modified. 2 Providing input to a shader So far we've only been thinking of simple kinds of shaders that supply colors to a material.