Abstract. SuperShader renders surfaces with many of the effects used in next-generation game engines, and allows arbitrary combinations of those effects to be applied simultaneously. It uses run-time code generation to produce optimized shaders for each surface and a cache to re-use shaders from similar surfaces. The supported effects are:

• Parallax mapping (updated to Parallax Occlusion Mapping in 2007)
• Percentage-closer shadow maps
• Environment lighting
• Emissive lighting
• Phong lighting
• Colored transparency
• Reflection
• Refraction
• Separate R,G,B control of all constants

@inbook{ mcguire05supershader,
  author = "Morgan McGuire",
  title = "The SuperShader",
  editor = {Wolfgang Engel},
  booktitle = "ShaderX^4",
  year = {2005},
  pages = {485--498},
  chapter = {8.1},
  URL = {http://graphics.cs.williams.edu/papers/SuperShaderX4}
}