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Using instancing for everything?
Instancing improves performance (significantly) when rendering multiple (hunders? thousands?) copies of the same mesh at once. But how much overhead does it have when rendering exactly one copy with ...
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Generated 3d tree meshes
I did not find a question on these lines yet, correct me if I'm wrong.
Trees (and fauna in general) are common in games. Due to their nature, they are a good candidate for procedural generation.
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Creating stable tentacle structures
I am using verlet integration to simulate some tentacles. So far it works great and I am satisfied with how it looks in general. Here is how a tentacle is built:
The very stiff sticks are colored ...
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Where and how to smooth a voxel-based terrain surface?
I want to smooth the blocky terrain in a Minecraft-like world. The smoothing affects visual appearance and physics but not the logic of placing and picking blocks. I have my mathematical formula to ...
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How attach a model with another model on a specific bone?
I meet a difficulty attached to a model to another model on a "bone" accurate.
I searched several forums but no result. I saw that many people have asked the same question but no real result see no ...
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OpenGL - Index buffers problem
I have a custom file format that has all the needed information for a 3D mesh (exported from 3ds Max). I've extracted the data for vertices, vertex indices and normals.
I pass to OpenGL the vertex ...
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How do I morph between meshes that have different vertex counts?
I am using MeshMorpher from the Unify wiki in my Unity project, and I want to be able to transform between arbitrary meshes.
This script only works when there are an equal number of vertices between ...
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Mesh objects and a draw function
I'm currently working with a mesh class so I can easily create mesh objects. Now I want a draw function in my mesh class so when ever i want draw it to the screen I can just call it without any fuss. ...
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How to optimise mesh data
So i have some procedurally generated mesh data and i want to reduce it down to its minimum number of verts. In case it matters this is a unity project.
Working on the basis of a simple example, ...
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What is “terrain mesh generation” exactly?
I'm new to computer graphics and need to know and understand what the "terrain mesh generation" is? I read about "terrain", "mesh", "terrain generation" but can't find an article named "terrain mesh ...
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Creating 3D objects from code and their normals
I'm trying to create my own 3D objects from scratch so I can generate my own terrain for a game I'm making.
So I created a cube and realized the lighting was strange, I looked up the cause and found ...
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How can I apply a mesh distortion to walls like in Dungeon Keeper 2?
In Dungeon Keeper 2, the walls of the dungeon have different random shapes depending on its state (freshly dug or reinforced, and so on).
They look like they are cubes of 3x3 vertices that have a ...
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Generate 2D Triangular Mesh from Vertices on a Map
Given a map of vertices {(x1,y1), (x2,y2), ... (xn,yn)}, how can I generate a 2D triangular mesh covering all vertices, and where the area of all triangles completely covers the map?
The triangular ...
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How to move on a mesh?
I am working on my collision system right now and I wondered how you can actually walk on a mesh. For example I'm thinking about a dynamically created little village and I want to be able to move the ...
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What should I do when a VBO becomes too large in OpenGL?
Currently I have one buffer for my vertex data and one buffer for normals data. I fill them and then pass them to OpenGL for rendering.
The problem is when I load too large mesh file like "Lucy" from ...
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Rendering large and high poly meshes
Consider an huge terrain that has a lot polygons, to render this terrain I thought of following techniques:
Using height-map instead of raw meshes: Yes, but I want to create a lot of caves and stuff ...
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Determine Mesh Vertex Index Given Another Mesh Index
Please bare with me as I explain what I am trying to accomplish :P
Each 'X' below represents a mesh vertex:
For my Unity3d GameObject (G1); the mesh vertices are stored in a C# List object in the ...
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Procedural terrain - how to blend textures between dynamic meshes
I think I should structure this question better.
I'm developing a procedural terrain structured with voxel chunks.
Every chunk:
contains a NxNxN voxel array generated with perlin noise 3d
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Bullet Physics ConvexDecomposition?
I've looked at Bullet Physics ConvexComposition Demo and would like to implement that in my game but the code is so undescriptive and it's hard to understand what is going on. Would any of you people ...
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Batch mesh simplification
I need a script for simplifying meshes, to run on a server in headless (no GUI) mode. Are there open source (or at least gratis) tools out there I could use for this? Or, how would I script Blender to ...
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Blender: How to merge multiple meshes of same object?
I have run into a bit of a problem creating my 3D model. I started with a single mesh and added additional meshes (all in edit mode) to create my geometric shape. They are all part of the same object, ...
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What does a Mesh consist of?
I have seen various implementations of mesh loaders in a few open source game engines. But all of them behave meshes differently. Is there a general definition for a mesh that explains what meshes ...
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Is there a game not using meshes for models? [closed]
Traditionally, models consist of lots of vertices connected by triangles. That forces the use of a high amount of vertices for detailed organic shapes or makes models kind of blocky. Even though ...
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FBX SDK Getting Tangents and Binormals From a Mesh?
How do I import tangent and binormal data per vertex from a FBX Mesh.
I already know how to get Vertices, Normals and UVs but how would I get tangents and binormals?
For example this is how I would ...
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Is it ok to destroy mesh directly from MeshFilter in Unity?
Mesh.Destroy(myGameObject.GetComponent<MeshFilter>());
May it cause any problems or undefined behaviour? (the reason I ask this is that I'm trying to destroy an exiting component which is ...
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Load Meshes with Bullet Physics
I just started implementing some physics in my game with Bullet Physics and I was just wondering how would i use bullet physics to load in meshes. For my for DirectX I load in x files into a ...
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Importing an object from Blender into a scene, rotation on X axis?
This is my situation:
I save the scene with blender no export with any processing steps.
Blender has x right y up -z into the scene for the view coordinates (OpenGL)
I have x right y up -z into ...
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Libgdx - 2D Mesh rendering overlap glitch
I am trying to render a 2D circle segment mesh (quarter circle)using Libgdx/Opengl ES 2.0 but I seem to be getting an overlapping issue as seen in the picture attached.
I cant seem to find the cause ...
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Save programmatically created Mesh to .X Files using SlimDX throw null exception
Mesh has been created properly using SlimDX,but when I use the following line:
Mesh.ToXFile(barMesh, "foo.x", XFileFormat.Text,CharSet.Unicode);
It throws NullReferenceException,through monitor ...
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Incomplete mesh using DrawIndexedPrimitives after rotating mesh
Through help on this site I was able to draw the triangles of an unrotated, nonscaled nontransformed mesh created in Blender and exported to OBJ, accurately imported through Assimp and rendered in XNA ...
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A problem with texture atlasing in Unity
I have the texture below and I need to get rectangular parts from it. I could finally combine meshes of different quads to improve performance, but I with quads of different tilings, this means ...
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Tilemap mesh issue with z, -z axis
I don't understand why the created mesh is upside down if z ( z*tileSize ) is positive, the mesh is then rendered with the texture looking down. With "-z", the mesh texture is looking up correctly, ...
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Texturing Custom Meshes/Terrain?
Here's the scenario:
I procedurally generate terrain on the fly, creating an isosurface which is an overlay on top of a scalar field of data points. These underlying data points are basically voxel ...
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2D movement constraint to navigation mesh
You can jump to the question in bold if you wish. I'm working on an isometric view 3d game and currently trying to constraint the players movement to a navigation mesh. My current algorithm works as ...
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C++, Direct3D - Creating mesh from texture [duplicate]
I am making a game similar to Minecraft. I want to create the mesh for the tool held in the players hand (e.g. a pickaxe).
I have a texture for the tool which is 32x32 pixels and I want to be able to ...
