List of GX Sample Demos

Difficulty Level
- Easy
- Intermediate
- Advanced

Simple Demos

smp-octa	smp-texexample	smp-light
This shows the effects of interlace flicker.	This shows an example of a basic texture.	This shows a very simple example of vertex lighting.
smp-onetri	smp-onetri_dl	smp-toy
This shows the basics of defining a vertex format, loading a matrix, and rendering shaded polygons.	This is the same as smp-onetri except that rendering is performed using GXCallDisplayList.	This demo shows the basic parts of the controller and graphics API.

Clipping and Culling

cul-faces	cul-viewport
This introduces four methods of culling surfaces.	This shows viewport and scissor box features.

Display List

DL-geom	DL-tex	DL-tf-mtx
This compares a program that uses a display list with one that does not.	This shows the types of commands that can be placed in the display list.	This shows the performance of a display list that includes a command that loads matrices.

Frame Buffer

frb-copy	frb-zcopy	frb-bound-box
This test copies a texture from the frame buffer.	This test copies a Z texture from the frame buffer.	This demo shows the bounding box feature.
frb-gamma	frb-fld-dbs	frb-fld-dbs-aa
This tests gamma correction mode.	This demo shows single field rendering of double-strike output.	This tests double-strike anti-alias rendering mode.
frb-fld-int	frb-fld-int-aa	frb-aa-full
This demo shows single field rendering of interlaced output.	This tests interlaced anti-alias rendering mode.	This tests full-frame anti-alias rendering mode.
frb-vfilter
This helps check the v filter and customize settings.

G2D

G2D-test

This sample demo is in the game format of the G2D library.

Geometry

geo-particle	geo-vtx-fmt
This tests the point size and line width that use a simple particle system.	This demo shows the basic functions of a graphics pipeline.

Indirect Texture

ind-bump-st	ind-bump-xyz	ind-tile-test
This shows how to render indirect textures.	This shows how to render indirect textures.	This shows tiled texture mapping using indirect textures.
ind-warp	ind-pseudo-3d
This uses an indirect texture to warp the lookup of an image texture.	This shows one way to make use of pseudo-3D texturing.

Lighting

lit-basic	lit-multi	lit-alpha
This controls a basic lighting channel that uses one light.	This uses multiple lights and light masks.	This uses multiple lighting channels.
lit-spot	lit-dist-atn	lit-atn-func
This controls angular attenuation.	This controls distance attenuation.	A simple function for attenuating light.
lit-unclamp	lit-cartoon	lit-texture
Diffuse function.	This generates texture coordinates using a diffuse feature.	This shows a combination of simple lighting and texture.
lit-tx-alpha	lit-prelit	lit-specular
This shows a combination of simple lighting and texture.	This uses pre-lighting.	This uses specular lighting.

Management

mgt-fifo-brkpt	mgt-fifo-dual	mgt-single-buf
Two frames of data is kept using a single FIFO.	This shows how to implement a dual FIFO more difficult than mg-fifo-brkpt.	This shows how to render using a single buffer.
mgt-triple-buf
This demonstrates rendering using triple buffering.

Performance

perf-fill	perf-geo	perf-sync
The purpose is to check the limits of the GP pixel fill rate and texture band width capacity.	The purpose is to check the limits of GP transform rate capacity. (Nothing appears on the screen.)	This describes how to measure the rendering performance of a single model.

Pixel Processing

pix-fog	pix-blend	pix-logic
This shows six different fog types.	This shows the blend feature of the pixel engine (PE).	This shows a blend feature that uses logical operations of the pixel engine (PE).
pix-z-comp	pix-a-comp	pix-sub
The Z comparison feature of the pixel engine (PE).	The alpha comparison feature of the pixel engine (PE).	This shows the easy shadow volume method as an example of subtract pixel processing.

Generating Texture Coordinates

tg-basic	tg-project	tg-emboss
This shows how to generate textures.	This shows texture projections.	This tests bump mapping.
tg-light-fx	tg-shadow	tg-shadow2
Simple cartoon outlining and specular highlighting of the texture.	Shadow projections.	This shows an example of generating a shadow on the entire complex scene.
tg-shadow3	tg-spheremap	tg-parabolicmap
This shows an example of generating a shadow of the entire complex scene.	This actually shows one method of converting from a cube (environmental) map to a sphere map.	This actually shows one method of converting from a cube (environmental) map to a dual paraboloid map.
tg-clr-persp	tg-dual
This sample shows how to rasterize vertex colors using color texture coordinates generation hardware.	This shows some methods of two-step conversion of texture coordinate generation.

Textures

tex-fmt-cube	tex-fmt-tpl	tex-filter
Texture format.	Texture format.	Texture filter mode.
tex-lod	tex-wrap	tex-layer
High-level LOD control mode.	Texture wrap mode.	Multi-texture feature.
tex-2-tex	tex-tc-alloc	tex-preload
Multi-texture feature.	Controlling the texture cache region.	Preloading a texture.
tex-mix-mode	tex-invalid	tex-tlut
How to use pre-loaded and cached textures.	Function to disable the texture cache.	Color index texture of any TLUT size.
tex-tlut32
Sample that realizes a 32-bit palette for the TEV2 stage.

Texture Environment (TEV)

tev-one-op	tev-swap	tev-multi
Color composition algorithm that uses a single TEV stage.	Introduction of various TEV swap modes.	Tests multiple TEV stages.
tev-complex	tev-outline	tev-ztex
Executes an example of multi-texturing using a complex TEV configuration.	Tests the cartoon outlining feature.	Shows how to use Z textures.

Conversions

tf-pn-mtx	tf-tg-mtx	tf-stitch
Default matrix layout for geometry and normals.	Texture coordinate generation using all default matrices.	Uses indexed matrices for switching lighting geometries.
tf-reflect	tf-mirror	tf-clip-bug
Reflection mapping.	Renders the geometry for a reflected view point.	Sample of clipping problems.

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