Shaders in Engine\

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The Engine\ folder of Source Materials.gcf contains the following shaders:

• UnlitGeneric is used for 6 materials.
• Modulate is used for modulatesinglecolor.vmt.

Table of contents

1 Dedicated Shaders 1.1 ColorCorrection 1.2 DepthWrite 1.3 FilmDust 1.4 FilmGrain 1.5 InternalFrameSync 1.6 Occlusion 1.7 ShadowBuild 1.8 VolumetricFog 1.9 WriteZ

Dedicated Shaders

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

ColorCorrection

• Used in only one material: colorcorrection.vmt

DepthWrite

• Used in only one material: depthwrite.vmt
• Not found in released mod code.
• Do not confuse this shader with the proxy by the same name.

FilmDust

• Used in only one material: filmdust.vmt
• Not found in released mod code.

FilmGrain

• Used in only one material: filmgrain.vmt
• Not found in released mod code (but probably referred to).

InternalFrameSync

• Used by only one material: framesync.vmt.
• Not found in released mod code.

Occlusion

• Used by only one material: occlusionproxy.vmt

ShadowBuild

• Used in only one material: shadowbuild.vmt
• Valve remark: "Used to generate render-to-texture shadows"
• Not found in released mod code.

VolumetricFog

• Used by the material Engine\volumetricfog.vmt. Also used for shadertesting. (See Shaders in shadertest\.)
• No parameters are given.
• Not found in released mod code.
• Reported not to work.

WriteZ

• Used in only one material: WriteZ.vmt
• Material referred to in src\cl_dll\c_vguiscreen.cpp.