Pixel Bender 3D Pre 2

Pixel Bender 3D is a Pixel Bender kernel language version that will allow you to produce vertex and fragment shaders that run on 3D hardware to generate output images.

These kernels operate on 3D objects and affect their appearance. Pixel Bender 3D is built on the Adobe Flash 3D APIs, codenamed Molehill, which handles the display of 3D objects in Flash Player.

The Pixel Bender 3D prerelease includes Mac and Windows Pixel Bender 3D command-line compilers, an ActionScript library containing the welder and translator components, sample files, and documentation.

What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

Changes to the Public Interface:
· RegisterMap provides information about the use of registers and numerical constants in the program.
· ProgramConstantsHelper doesn`t throw an exception if you attempt to set a value that was in the original kernel but has since been optimized away.
· CompilerOptions has a new option - performPeepholeOptimization.
· AGALProgram returns the number of temporary registers required by this program. Programs which use more than 8 temporary registers will not run on Molehill.
· pb3dutil.exe no longer throws an exception if there`s a compilation error. It does still report the error.

The following classes have been added:
· GlobalID
· NumericalConstantInfo
· ParameterRegisterInfo
· RegisterElement
· RegisterElementGroup
· TextureRegisterInfo
· Version

The following functions in ProgramConstantsHelper have been implemented:
· setBooleanParameterByName
· setBooleanParameterBySemantics
· setIntParameterByName
· setIntParameterBySemantics
· setMatrixParameterBySemantics
· setNumberParameterByS...