Render a shader to a texture?

[serial]

Is there any possible way to render a shader to a texture?  I thought about rendering it to a plane on a rendersurface,  but I'm looking for something a little more elegant. 

[BlindSide]

If you're rendering a fullscreen shader, then you simply use the same function to render it to an RS as you do to the screen (draw_fullscreenquadwithshader) or something like that.

[serial]

Can I get a little more information on that?  I'm still new to shaders. I'll see if I can find some of the information,  but not exactly sure what you are refering to.

[BlindSide]

To render a fullscreen shader you use TVSCreen.Draw_FullscreenQuadWithShader(shader)

It works like drawing a texture.

Internally it automatically sets up a screen-aligned quad for your shader.

[Waterman]

Outside the loop:

Code:

surface = Scene.Create(Alpha)RenderSurface 512 512
texture = surface.GetTexture
shader = Scene.CreateShader
shader.CreateFromEffectString/File [string/filename]

Inside the loop (OUTSIDE TV.Clear/TV.RenderToScreen):

Code:

surface.StartRender 0/1 (0 clears)
TVScreen2DImmediate.Draw_FullscreenQuadWithShader shader 0 0 1 1 [opt. texture]
surface.EndRender

Scene and TVScreen2DImmediate are objects of respective types that you have already created.

@Sylvain, John, why is this font for code so damned small?!?!?