Shaders in Debug\

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The Debug\ folder of Source Materials.gcf contain shaders dedicated to debugging purposes.

• UnlitGeneric is used for 18 materials, making it the mostly commonly used shader here.
• LightmappedGeneric_DX8 is used for debuglightmap.vmt.
• LightmappedGeneric is used for debuglightmapzbuffer.vmt.

Contents 1 Dedicated Shaders 1.1 Wireframe 1.2 DebugLightingOnly 1.3 DebugLuxels 1.4 hsv 1.5 ShowDestAlpha 1.6 VertexNormals 1.7 yuv

Dedicated Shaders

The following shaders are more or less exclusively used for this folder:

Wireframe

• Used for 14 materials in this folder, out of a 19 materials in total.

DebugLightingOnly

• Only used by the material debuglightingonly.vmt.
• Not found in released mod code.

DebugLuxels

• Used by the materials debugluxels.vmt and debugluxelsnoalpha.vmt. Also used for the Valve Hammer Editor. (See Shaders in Editor\.)
• Not found in released mod code.

hsv

• Used in only one material: hsv.vmt
• This material is directly referred to in src\cl_dll\view_scene.cpp in the mod code.

ShowDestAlpha

• Used in only four materials showblurredcolor.vmt, showdestalpha.vmt, showdestalphatimescolor_blurred.vmt

and showdestalpha_blurred.vmt, all in this folder.

• Not found in released mod code.

VertexNormals

• Use only in one material: debugworldnormals.vmt
• Not found in released mod code.

yuv

• Used in only one material: yuv.vmt
• Converts the screen from RGB to YUV colorspace. Post-process shader.
• Material referred to in src\cl_dll\view_scene.cpp