Veritable Soft has just released an exporter for ATI's RenderMonkey
shader editor to the OGRE .material script format. After installing the
plugin, you can right-click on the RenderMonkey tree and export the
selection to OGRE, creating .material scripts, exporting shader
programs and the bindings required to them, and textures all ready to
go in OGRE.
Note that CVS users do not need to apply the OGRE patch on Veritable's
website since support for the additional shader autoparameters it needs
has already been added.