The vertex shader is used to transform the attributes of vertices (points of a triangle) such as color, texture, position and direction from the original color space to the display space.

So after cruisin the net, I found some fun reading over at the The Inquirer. There was an article talking about PS3.0, VS3.0 and the like. Now one part really cought my attention - read this:quote ...

Hey guys..<BR>Just wanting to 'edumacate' myself. I hear about all these good things about the future of gaming and graphics technology. I hear the terms "Vertex shaders", "Programmable pixels ...

Vertex shaders can't make new vertices and each shader has to work on every single vertex. It would be handy if there was some way of using a bit of code to make more triangles, ...

Vertex Shader. The first big difference of note is the so-called Vertex Shader, which you will recall from our preview makes up one half of the named features in NVIDIA's " nfiniteFX Engine". The ...

(A vertex shader.) What color is this part of the image? (A fragment shader.) This article concentrates on GLSL fragment shaders. Shader programs allow the programmer to modify the “fixed ...

While these shader packs won't be optimized for 1.21.6 yet, you can still use them in the latest version, you may just find that some features don't work quite right.

The key thing to know here is Alan Wake 2 uses mesh shaders. More than that, one of the game's developers said that they are aware that the vertex shader pipeline, i.e. the traditional fallback ...