Codeplay Responds to NVidia's Cg

Da Masta writes "Codeplay Director Andrew Richards has some interesting things to say about NVidia's Cg graphics language. Just to refresh, Codeplay is the company that publishes Vector C, the badassed, high performance C compiler. In brief, it seems as though Cg isn't the universal, standard graphics language some pass it off to be. Certain design considerations in the language, such as the lack of integers, break/continue/goto/case/switch structures, and pointers suggest a general lack of universal usefulness. This leads to suspicion that NVidia plans to add and tailor the language in the future according to its own hardware and their respective features. Of course, this is all old news to those of us who noticed NVidia co-developed the language with the Evil Empire."

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It's a shader language...

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1. It's not C.

2. Exluna was bought by nVidia.

3. Exluna makes 2 renderman compliant renderers.

4. Shaders are used by renderman.

5. nVidia is touting CG as a compiled shader... just like one has to compile shaders for renderman.

6. Fill in the next 2 years here of having look development tools for major graphics studios that look close enough to the final renders that it speeds up FX work to near realtime for shading and lighting.