Supported HLSL Semantics

Name	Description
Diffuse	Color value to be used as the diffuse color. The fourth channel represents diffuse alpha.
DiffuseLightColor	Color value to be used as the diffuse light color. The fourth channel represents diffuse alpha.
DiffuseMaterialColor	Color value to be used as the diffuse material color. The fourth channel represents diffuse alpha.
DiffuseMaterialTexture	Color value to be used as the diffuse texture. The fourth channel represents diffuse alpha.
Specular	Color value to be used as the specular color. The fourth channel represents specular alpha.
SpecularLightColor	Color value to be used as the specular light color. The fourth channel represents specular alpha.
SpecularMaterialColor	Color value to be used as the specular material color. The fourth channel represents specular alpha.
SpecularMaterialTexture	Color value to be used as the specular texture. The fourth channel represents specular alpha.
Ambient	Color value to be used as the ambient color. The fourth channel represents ambient alpha.
AmbientLightColor	Color value to be used as the ambient light color. The fourth channel represents ambient alpha.
AmbientMaterialColor	Color value to be used as the material ambient color. The fourth channel represents ambient alpha.
AmbientMaterialTexture	Color value to be used as the ambient texture. The fourth channel represents ambient alpha.
FogColor	Color used to color pixel fogging.
Emissive	Color value to be used as the emissive color. The fourth channel represents emissive alpha.
EmissiveLightColor	Color value to be used as the emissive light color. The fourth channel represents emissive alpha.
EmissiveMaterialColor	Color value to be used as the emissive material color. The fourth channel represents emissive alpha.
EmissiveMaterialTexture	Color value to be used as the emissive texture. The fourth channel represents emissive alpha.
SpecularPower	Power to use for the specular exponent.
Normal	Normal for the element or texture.
Height	Height for the element when using bump mapping.
Refraction	A refraction map that give the coefficents to determine the norma for an environment map lookup.
Opacity	Opacity of the object.
Environment	An environment map.
EnvironmentNormal	An environment normal map.
Fresnel	A fresnel factor.
UVOffset	Texture co-ordinate offset.
UVScale	Texture co-ordinate scaling factor.
World	World matrix.
WorldInverse	World-inverse matrix.
WorldTranspose	World-transpose matrix.
WorldInverseTranspose	world-inverse-transpose matrix.
WorldView	world-view matrix.
WorldViewTranspose	world-view-transpose matrix.
WorldViewInverse	world-view-inverse matrix.
WorldViewInverseTranspose	world-view-inverse-transpose matrix.
WorldViewProjection	world-view-projection matrix.
WorldViewProjectionInverse	world-view-projection-inverse matrix.
WorldViewProjectionInverseTranspose	world-view-projection-inverse-transpose matrix.
View	view matrix.
ViewProjection	view-projection matrix.
ViewInverse	view-inverse matrix.
ViewTranspose	view-transpose matrix.
ViewInverseTranspose	view-inverse-transpose matrix
ViewProjectionInverse	view-projection-inverse matrix.
ViewProjectionTranspose	view-projection-transpose matrix.
ViewProjectionInverseTranspose	view-projection-inverse-transpose matrix.
ViewportPixelSize	Size of the viewport in pixels
ViewportClipping	near distance, far distance, width angle(radians), height angle(radians).
Projection	projection matrix.
ProjectionInverse	projection-inverse matrix.
ProjectionInverseTranspose	projection-inverse-transpose matrix.
Time	The current time (see units annotation for scale).
LastTime	The last frame time (see units annotation for scale).
ElapsedTime	The time between adjacent frames (see units annotation for scale).
TextureMatrix	A texture coordinate transform matrix.
Position	A position vector.
Direction	A direction vector.
BoundingCenter	Bounding box center.
BoundingSphereRadius	Bounding sphere radius.
BoundingBoxSize	Bounding box size.
BoundingBoxMin	Bounding minimum for x, y, z
BoundingBoxMax	Bounding maximum for x, y, z
LightProjection	Light projection matrix.
Attenuation	Light attenuation.
LightUmbra	Light cone umbra
LightPenumbra	Light cone penumbra
LightRange	Light effective range
LightFalloff	Spotlight cone falloff between umbra and penumbra
RenderColorTarget	Defines the texture as the render target of a pass in the effect.
RenderDepthStencilTarget	Defines the texture as the render target of a pass in the effect.
Random	A random value between 0->1
UnitsScale	Defines the modeling proportions to the current unit/space.
StandardsGlobal	Standards version and global annotations" />
MousePosition	The mouse position on screen (x,y,time)
LeftMouseDown	The left mouse down state, and its position at that time ( x, y, isdown, timedown)
RightMouseDown	The right mouse down state, and its position at that time (x, y, isdown, timedown)
LightPosition	Light position in world space.
LightDirection	Light direction in world space.
CameraPosition	Viewer position in world space (replaced by position with space=view annotation).
CameraDirection	Viewer direction in world space (replaced by position with space=view annotation).
CurrentObject	Obtains the value of a property on the object currently being rendered.
Object	Obtains the value of a property on an object.
BoneCount	The number of bones in the palette.

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