rcp

Computes the reciprocal of the source scalar.

rcp dest, src

Registers

dest

Destination register.

src

Input source register.

To learn more about registers, see Registers.

Remarks

The following code fragment shows the operations performed.

if(src.w == 1.0f)
{
    dest.x = dest.y = dest.z = dest.w = 1.0f;
}
else if(src.w == 0)
{
    dest.x = dest.y = dest.z = dest.w = PLUS_INFINITY();
}
else
{
    dest.x = dest.y = dest.z = m_dest.w = 1.0f/src.w;
}

The output must be exactly 1.0 if the input is exactly 1.0. A source of 0.0 yields infinity.

Precision should be at least 1.0/(2²²) absolute error over the range (1.0, 2.0) because common implementations will separate mantissa and exponent.

If the source has no subscripts, the x-component is used.

Example

// This example changes the vertex color from green to white. 
// The max instruction clamps the result to 1.0. 

vs.1.0
m4x4 oPos, v0, c0	; transform vertices by view/projection matrix

rcp r0, c5  		; take the reciprocal of 0.5
max r1, r0, c4.y	         ; clamp the output to max of 1
mov oD0, r2	    	; result is white

// The resultant vertex color is white and is shown below.

// Additional code is used to initialize the constant registers.

D3DXMATRIX mat, matView, matProj;
D3DXMatrixMultiply(&mat, &matView, &matProj);
D3DXMatrixTranspose(&mat, &mat);
// set C0 with the view and projection matrix
m_pd3dDevice->SetVertexShaderConstant(0, &mat, 4);

// set register c4
float colorGreen[4] = {0, 1, 0, 0};
m_pd3dDevice->SetVertexShaderConstant(4, &colorGreen, 1);

// set register c5
float colorGray[] = {0, 0, 0, 0.5f};
m_pd3dDevice->SetVertexShaderConstant(5, &colorGray, 1);

// The first SetVertexShaderConstant method binds the C0 register 
// with the first row of the view/projection matrix (rows 2, 3 and 4 are 
// bound to registers C2, C3 and c4 also). The m4x4 instruction (in the 
// shader file) loads the data.
// The second SetVertexShaderConstant method binds the C4 register 
// with the color green. The last SetVertexShaderConstant method 
binds the C5 register with the color gray.