Author Topic: Optimization: GPU-based Submodel Transforms  (Read 7271 times)

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Offline Macfie

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Re: Optimization: GPU-based Submodel Transforms
Where does the patch file go?
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Offline Fury

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Re: Optimization: GPU-based Submodel Transforms
Nowhere, it just contains changed code base on some revision of the FSO trunk. It's meant for coders only.

 

Offline Bobboau

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Re: Optimization: GPU-based Submodel Transforms
ohhhh, nice! I'm assuming you basically used a similar technique that is used for skeletal deformation?

with this in place model instancing becomes a lot easier.
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Offline Swifty

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Re: Optimization: GPU-based Submodel Transforms
Yup, that's pretty much it. :D

As for model instancing, perhaps it's feasible but I've given it cursory thought for now. Right now I have rotation and position info stored in a floating point texture per ship which is then bound in a texture unit before draw. Not very scalable for instanced drawing. Perhaps I could have a transformation texture per ship class which will store the data that the shader can rely on when getting per instance data. Or I can use array textures.

I'll think about it fully when this gets stable.

 

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Re: Optimization: GPU-based Submodel Transforms
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Offline Bobboau

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Re: Optimization: GPU-based Submodel Transforms
Yup, that's pretty much it. :D

As for model instancing, perhaps it's feasible but I've given it cursory thought for now. Right now I have rotation and position info stored in a floating point texture per ship

is this a 1D texture? can it be made into a 1D texture, if so then you can use the second dimension for more than one ship. or make a 3d texture.
and you wouldn't even need to do this per class, you could just put everything into one texture, use the ship class index as the offset in one dimension.
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