What are Skyrim's .FXP shader files?

monkeyscience

Skyrim is awesome and I want to mess with their shaders but they seem to be compiled into some sort of binary .FXP format. Anyone here from Bethesda or otherwise know how to open them and touch them .. in places?

Joshua Stubbles

You could wait until the development tools are released in a week or two. They said shortly after the first of the year, the whole shebang will be released

throttlekitty

DirectX's SDK has a PIX app that will let you poke around in them.

mLichy

I've used PIX before, it's very cool. Very good for finding out what is expensive/being drawn when it doesnt need to be, ect.