hlsl shader debugger

[Simon.Anderson]

Hi there,

 

does anyone know of a good debugger for HLSL or GLSL shaders? 

 

Just downloaded CodeXL for my AMD card so trying that out at the moment.

 

Any help is appreciated.

 

Cheers,

Simon

[unclebob]

Hello, Simon!

 

Such a good question there. Let's start from GPU vendors:

 

NVIDIA: https://developer.nvidia.com/nv-shader-debugger

ATI: http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/graphics-development/gpu-perfstudio/gpu-perfstudio-shader-debugger/and http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/graphics-development/gpu-shaderanalyzer/

 

If you're working on windows then there was a Microsoft PIX but now they made a replacement for it: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh315751(v=vs.110).aspx

 

There's also an open source glsl debugger on github, check it out: http://glsl-debugger.github.io/

[Simon.Anderson]

Thanks,

 

So I started using ATI shader debugger (perfstudio) but it doesn't debug GLSL code unfortunately.

 

I'm curious - what does your team uses to debug GLSL shaders?

 

Thanks,

Simon

[unclebob]

Hey Simon,

 

Usually our dev team don't use shader debuggers so I can't give you any information about that. Maybe you'll try to use one from github and write a post here about it. What do you think?

[sergey.pozhidaev]

renderdoc is good, but only dx http://habrahabr.ru/company/infopulse/blog/234619/