What is this?
DASHR is a real-time rendering technique and demo for dynamically animated, skinned heightfields — letting height-based surfaces like snow, sand or terrain deform and move realistically. It's by veteran graphics programmer Tom Forsyth and ships as a paper plus a Windows/DirectX demo.
DASHR is a real-time rendering technique and demo for dynamically animated, skinned heightfields — letting height-based surfaces like snow, sand or terrain deform and move realistically. It's by veteran graphics programmer Tom Forsyth and ships as a paper plus a Windows/DirectX demo.Is this a reusable library or just a research demo?It's a research project, not a drop-in library: a technical paper plus a standalone Windows/DirectX executable demo you run to see the technique.
It's a research project, not a drop-in library: a technical paper plus a standalone Windows/DirectX executable demo you run to see the technique.How do I try the demo?Download the whole repository, then run the prebuilt executable at demo/skinnedheightfield.exe; the Windows/DirectX source for the demo lives in the demo directory.
Download the whole repository, then run the prebuilt executable at demo/skinnedheightfield.exe; the Windows/DirectX source for the demo lives in the demo directory.Does the demo run on Mac or Linux?No, the demo is a Windows executable built with DirectX, so there's no cross-platform build.
No, the demo is a Windows executable built with DirectX, so there's no cross-platform build.Would this be useful for game developers working on terrain rendering?Yes, it's aimed at graphics programmers and game developers interested in real-time animated heightfield/terrain rendering, presented as a technical paper backed by a working demo.
Yes, it's aimed at graphics programmers and game developers interested in real-time animated heightfield/terrain rendering, presented as a technical paper backed by a working demo.What is the underlying idea behind skinned heightfields?It applies character-style skeletal skinning to a heightfield mesh so terrain-like surfaces (snow, sand, fabric) can deform and animate dynamically in real time, much like a skinned character mesh.
It applies character-style skeletal skinning to a heightfield mesh so terrain-like surfaces (snow, sand, fabric) can deform and animate dynamically in real time, much like a skinned character mesh.What are similar projects?3d-game-shaders-for-beginners, instant-ngp, bgfx, DaVinciResolve-likeColorGradePanel4UE, assimp, web-ocean, sbox-public, gaussian-splatting
3d-game-shaders-for-beginners, instant-ngp, bgfx, DaVinciResolve-likeColorGradePanel4UE, assimp, web-ocean, sbox-public, gaussian-splattingWhich topics is it in?real-time-rendering, demo, computer-graphics, gamedev, paper, rendering, game-development, graphics, 3d, windows-app, academic-research, html
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