SketchpunkLabs | WebGL2 : 134 : Data Texture Skin Animation @SketchpunkLabs | Uploaded 4 years ago | Updated 3 hours ago
So we retargeted some animation and managed to save it back out as a GLTF file to reuse. So lets try something different. Lets take our animation and transform it into something that will be usable on the GPU, then store all this data into a texture buffer. So why do this? Well, we can store boat loads of information in a texture plus we have random access to the data. So if we're smart in saving our data as Pixels, we can move all our skin animation code into a shader that will do all the work on the gpu. So no more figuring out the
world space position / rotation for every bone for every frame, all that will be cached onto a texture and we'll no longer need to recalculate the animation again, victory.
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Links of Interest
https://webgl2fundamentals.org/webgl/lessons/webgl-skinning.html
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GitHub :: https://github.com/sketchpunk/FunWithWebGL2
Patreon :: https://www.patreon.com/sketchpunk
Twitter :: https://twitter.com/SketchpunkLabs
So we retargeted some animation and managed to save it back out as a GLTF file to reuse. So lets try something different. Lets take our animation and transform it into something that will be usable on the GPU, then store all this data into a texture buffer. So why do this? Well, we can store boat loads of information in a texture plus we have random access to the data. So if we're smart in saving our data as Pixels, we can move all our skin animation code into a shader that will do all the work on the gpu. So no more figuring out the
world space position / rotation for every bone for every frame, all that will be cached onto a texture and we'll no longer need to recalculate the animation again, victory.
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Links of Interest
https://webgl2fundamentals.org/webgl/lessons/webgl-skinning.html
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GitHub :: https://github.com/sketchpunk/FunWithWebGL2
Patreon :: https://www.patreon.com/sketchpunk
Twitter :: https://twitter.com/SketchpunkLabs
