MGCB Sample

A minimal MonoGame content-pipeline sample (samples/mgcb) that builds .fx shaders through ShadowDusk via the MGCB content build, demonstrating the drop-in mgfxc / MGCB Content Pipeline (Tier-1) integration.

What it does

The sample's Content/Content.mgcb is a standard MonoGame content project targeting DesktopGL / Reach that builds a broad slice of the test shader corpus (BasicEffect, AlphaTestEffect, the Penumbra* effects, the tutorial *Shader.fx set, post-process effects like Grayscale/Invert/Sepia, and more) with the stock EffectImporter / EffectProcessor.

When ShadowDusk's CLI is exposed under the name mgfxc on PATH ahead of MonoGame's (a renamed copy/symlink or wrapper script — the installed tool command itself is ShadowDuskCLI), MGCB shells out to it unchanged — same flags, same .mgfx output — so this exact .mgcb builds its shaders through ShadowDusk on Linux, macOS, or Windows.

Run it

cd samples/mgcb
dotnet mgcb /@:Content/Content.mgcb     # builds the .fx through whatever mgfxc is on PATH
dotnet run                              # runs the host

Install ShadowDusk's CLI first and expose it as mgfxc ahead of any MonoGame-provided one:

dotnet tool install --global ShadowDusk.Cli   # installs the `ShadowDuskCLI` command
# then alias/rename it to `mgfxc` first on PATH — see the guide below

See MGCB Content Pipeline (Tier-1) for the PATH-override details (the mgfxc-named alias/wrapper) and the /Profile ↔ target mapping.

Files

File	Role
MGCBSample.csproj	the host project
Program.cs	MonoGame host entry point
Content/Content.mgcb	the content build that compiles the .fx corpus through mgfxc