Nvidia has released its Composer FX 2 (Beta 3) for public download, marking the first time a beta revision of the shader-authoring software
has been made publicly available.

The software includes cross-platform support for DirectX 9 and OpenGL, as well as HLSL, COLLADA FX Cg, and Cg FX. It also has l Collanda asset
management.

The software is being bundled with Mental Mill Artist Edition. This means that artist developers can use shaders with supported
exportability to FX Composer for further work.

The full feature list can be found here.