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former include the name of the HLSL file, the entry function name, the target

profile, an

HLSLDefiner object that stores the preprocessor defines necessary

to compile the HLSL shader, and a bit flag for compiler options. The in-

puts for the latter are similar except that you provide a string for the shader

and a name that plays the role of the file name. The output of each call is

a

HLSLShader object that stores all the information necessary to create and

manipulate D3D11 shaders at runtime. The subsystems in

HLSLShaderFactory

were described in to some extent in Section 4.2.

The GTEngine interface to an

HLSLShader object is provided by the class

ShaderFactory. This class also has only public static functions, creators ...