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Geometry

Modules

Basic Geometry

Skinning

Morphing

Delta Morphing

Particles

Bézier Patches

Collision Detection

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Detailed Description

Basic Geometry, Skinning, Morphing, Delta Morphing & Particles

Geometry Overview

Geometry contains:

• Basic Geometry
  • Materials
    • RpMaterial Overview - color, texture, specularity, ambient reflectivity and diffusion
    • RpMatFX Plugin Overview - material effects including environment mapping, bump mapping, and dual pass

  • RpAtomic Overview - container objects for RpGeometry's and RwFrame's
  • RpGeometry Overview - container object for dynamic model data
  • RpMorphTarget Overview - keyframe animation
  • Meshes
    • RpMesh Overview - caching system designed to speed up rendering
    • RtVCAT Toolkit Overview - vertex cache aware tristripper
  • RpADC Plugin Overview - address control flag generation
  • RtGCond Toolkit Overview - geometry conditioning
  • RtWorldImport Toolkit Overview - create a static world within an RpWorld object
  • RtWing Toolkit Overview - implement, maintain and operate on polygons using wing/half-edge data structure
  • RtWorld Toolkit Overview - additional functionality for RpWorld
• Skinning
  • RpSkin Plugin Overview - animate a model while reducing the 'folding' and 'creasing' of polygons as model animates
  • RtSkinSplit Toolkit Overview - render more bones than supported by the platform
• Morphing
  • RpInterpolator Overview - instance of dynamic geometry data, interpolated from keyframes stored in Morph Targets
  • RpMorph Plugin Overview - morph animation
• Delta Morphing
  • RpDMorph Plugin Overview - delta morph animation
• Particles
  • RpPrtStd Plugin Overview - basic particle animation and management system
  • RpPTank Plugin Overview - driver level particle manager and particle container
  • RpPrtAdv Plugin Overview - advanced particle system (part of the FXPack and found in the FXPack folder)
• Bézier Patches
  • RpPatch Plugin Overview - includes support for quadrilateral and triangular bi-cubic patches
• Collision Detection
  • RpCollision Plugin Overview - detects collisions with atomics or the static geometry of a world
  • RtPick Toolkit Overview - pick objects in a scene under a particular pixel location of a camera's image raster

See also:

Scene Management Overview

Other Documentation

Geometry is covered in the following chapters:

UserGuideVol1.pdf:

• World & Static Models (RpMaterial, RtWorldImport)
• Dynamic Models (RpAtomic, RpGeometry, RpMorphTarget)

UserGuideVol2.pdf:

• Material Effects (RpMatFX)
• Geometry Conditioning (RtGCond, RtWing)
• Skinning (RpSkin)
• Morphing (RpInterpolator, RpMorph)
• Delta Morphing (RpDMorph)
• PTank (RpPTank)
• Standard Particles (RpPrtStd)
• B-splines and Bézier Patches (RpPatch)
• Collision Detection (RpCollision, RtPick)

See also:

User Guide Volume I , User Guide Volume II

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