vertex shaders and meshes

I've a long way to go before I'd even be asking about any usage in particular

but, I see :

VertexShader = null;[/code:3f496yql]
at the bottom of the .fx files
and I was curious if it's possible to use vertex shaders in construct as effects
and whether or not they would operate on the individual vertexes of meshes

There's no way to use vertex shaders yet - before meshes, there was no reason to (what can you usefully do with four vertices?). However, you can do anything a vertex shader could via events, and it probably won't be a bottleneck unless you're doing really insane stuff.

yet?

does that mean it's planned for construct 1?

Well, maybe, but as I said it can all be done via events on meshes, so it's potentially a lot of effort for something that can already be done another way... you won't get a performance boost the same as with pixel shaders, vertex shaders are fairly light on CPU when done in software.

I see.

thanks for the info ash