For people doing native development, RenderMonkey is an invaluable tool: http://developer.amd.com/resources/archive/archived-tools/gpu-tools-archive/rendermonk

For people doing native development, RenderMonkey is an invaluable tool: http://developer.amd.com/resources/archive/archived-tools/gpu-tools-archive/rendermonkey-toolsuite/ http://developer.amd.com/resources/archive/archived-tools/gp... Really great way of prototyping shaders, though I don't think it supports geometry shaders right now, and it seems to be only Windows. For debugging, gDebugger is amaaaazing (and has Windows and Linux support): http://www.gremedy.com/ http://www.gremedy.com/ It lets you inspect textures, buffer objects, and suchlike, and can help you profile graphics calls.