PRMan -> Cg

[ajk48n]

What exactly do you mean? Renderman shaders are used on animation scenes for the materials and textures, etc. They are then rendered in a renderman compliant renderer. Do you want to use a renderman shader in a different program?

[chips__]

yup, i want to rewrite my renderman shaders for the fx cards and run them close to realtime :D

[ajk48n]

Well, I don't know if there's a way to explicitly do it, but you could use the same algorithms that you use in a renderman shader to create a shader that could be used by the card.
I guess a program could also be written, that would take the formulas in a renderman shader and automatically convert them into another shader of your choice.

[rendermaniac]

There are some differences between cg and RenderMan. Last time I looked cg didn't support loops (may have changed), but did have proper structures which would be a nice addition to RenderMan.

I don't know if cg supports the overloaded dot product . either which is something used a lot in RenderMan.

Check out http://www.cgshaders.org/ or the nvidia websites to find out for sure though.

Simon

[chips__]

i just walked in the door with a fx5900 ultra card, so i'll start playing around :D we'll know soon

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