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Toadums
Toadums

Reputation: 2812

Applying pixel shaders to images

I would like to apply a shader effect to an image in c#/xaml.

I have found this example:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.media.effects.shadereffect(v=vs.95).aspx

Which makes applying pixel shaders to an image pretty trivial. Unfortunately I cannot do the same thing with the windows 8 phone SDK.

Can I do anything this simple? I would like to avoid using DirectX if possible.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 1914

Answers (2)

Pieter Voloshyn
Pieter Voloshyn

Reputation: 196

Check the link below:

Creating a Lens Application that uses HLSL effects for filters

This solution uses SharpDX api (a C# DirectX wrapper).

I've tested recently and it works fine under emulator.

Unfortunally I didn't get the same results when applying outside a Game class. I already published a question here with no responses yet. :-(

Good luck!

Best regards,

Pieter Voloshyn

Upvotes: 1

Gary Johnson
Gary Johnson

Reputation: 885

Unfortunately you cannot make custom ShaderEffects in Windows Phone 7 or 8. See also: WP7 - HLSL effects from WPF/Silverlight

Also it would appear that XNA is a no-go: Windows Phone custom shaders error? I don't think XNA has had any feature additions from WP7 to WP8, either.

You might be able to get away with doing what you need in Direct3D: (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/jj714072(v=vs.105).aspx)

Good luck!

Upvotes: 0

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