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I have thought about saving animation data in texture. I think I can save shader parameter setting and interpolation cost in CPU, and also enable animated instancing. But I couldn't find no text mentioning about this, so I think there's some obvious reason people don't do this. Which I'm missing. Can I know what I missed? Or is this just widely known technique? |
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The main reason to not do skinned mesh instancing is that the vertex shaders texture fetch is fairly slow compared to other instructions (not sure to what degree), however you need to compare this with doing an extra draw call per instance instead. To tell if you gain or lose on using instancing you would have to measure your particular code, in most cases you will probably gain on it as long as your rendering more than a trivial number of models. Skinned Model Instancing has some nice information, its targeted towards XNA but has a section on performance which would be applicable. |
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