Finally!
Http://developer.nvidia.com/object/fx_composer_home.html
Key features of FX composer 2
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- Cross-API support
- DirectX 9 and OpenGL
- HLSL, Collada fx cg, cgfx shading ages
- User-friendly shader authoring
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- Shader creation wizard with Templates
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- Full-featured code editor
- Code folding for functions, techniques and passes
- Tab stop display
- Line Number Display
- External file modification monitoring
- Jump-to-include files
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- Properties panel for tweaking shader Parameters
- High dynamic range color picker
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- Material panel for managing Materials
- Display of per-material textures
- Tone mapping for per-material textures
- Easy material creation and management interface
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- Hundreds of sample shaders
- NVIDIA shader library integration
- Sample projects ranging from simple to complex
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- Advanced scene manipulation
- Create and manipulate basic geometric shapes, lights, and cameras
- Import. 3DS,. fbx,. Dae,. X,. OBJ files
- Drag-and-drop light binding
- Drag-and-drop texture binding
- Skinning and animation
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- Texture Viewer
- Support for. Dds,. jpg,. BMP,. PNG,. tif
- Drag-and-drop textures onto object Materials
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- Mental mill artist Edition
- Artist-friendly visual shader authoring
- Ability to export to fx composer via cgfx and HLSL
- Convenient start page
- Recent projects
- Quick Start tutorial
- Quick Links to user guide and other useful documentation
- Single-click access to open effects and create new ones
- Single-click access to open Collada documents
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- Integrated shader Performance Tuning via NVIDIA shaderperf 2.0
- Support for cgfx, Collada FX, and HLSL shaders
- Compare shader techniques into SS multiple GPUs
- View data in tables or graphs
- See shader throughput, register usage, instruction counts, and branching Performance
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- Convenient pipeline integration features
- Semantic and annotation remapping
- Advanced scripting support
- Full Python Scripting
- Custom toolbar for scripting support
- Extensible plug-in architecture with SDK
- Complete Collada support
- Project and asset management (Project explorer and library viewer)
- Author Collada assets
- Create and remove Collada documents
- Move, delete, and copy Collada assets into SS Collada documents ents
- View Collada assets by category
- Collada format support
- Material instance scene binding
- Material instance vertex binding
- Skinning
- Triangulation with Holes
- Support for rendering common profiles
- Vertex stream remapper
- Conversion of cgfx to Collada FX CG
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- Comprehensive Undo/Redo support
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- Comprehensive documentation
- User Guide
- Quick tutorial
