Vertex Animation Toolset, crowd rendering

[Hethger]

@Chosker

looks nice, very interesting

a few things to consider:

• I don’t get why textures are 2048 with all that wasted space. they are not going to be streamed anyway so you don’t need mips (any mipmap is useless except the full resolution, so don’t need power of 2)
• will you support animation blending of some kind? I understand this is for crowds but even then the hard cuts are jarring

also since animation textures are generated per mesh * per animation * per LOD, you’re probably aware that if you have more than a handful of characters you’re going to end up with a big texture library and potentially a lot of texture memory used.

-The textures are 2048 in the videos and content just as examples, the tool supports any arbitrary resolution.

-Animation blending can be done by using same scale encoding technique I do in the examples, since its a pretty common feature I’ll see about including an implementation in the content examples.

-The tool allows for multiple animations to be packed into only one texture and all LODs can access that one texture by using the additional UV Channel designated for looking up the same pixel coordinates in the textures, all the examples in the videos use only 2 textures (1º for position offsets and 2º for normals).

Cheers.