Custom client shader

[ddevault]

We need to replace BasicEffect and AlphaTestEffect with our own shaders so we can start to branch out into areas like lighting and more effective biome colors.

[moorehousew]

Ouch, after looking into this it seems that MonoGame uses a custom 'compiled' shader format using a tool that comes with the SDK, you give it an .fx file and it spits out a cross-platform MonoGame version. The tool also only works on Windows. Compiled shaders supposedly work on all platforms, at least.

[ddevault]

http://www.monogame.net/documentation/?page=Custom_Effects

It's not single platform, we can do it during our build on all platforms without too much trouble. The hard part is going to be convincing MSBuild to add a custom build step for it.

[moorehousew]

I've got a custom shader compiled and loaded without issue, however it doesn't seem to render anything...

[ddevault]

Well, what does your shader look like?

[moorehousew]

Nevermind, I've written the shader with shader model 3+ and shader model 2 functions mixed in. How that compiled is beyond me.

[ddevault]

Ah, alright then.

[ddevault]

This change is postponed, see discussion in #169.