MonoScene Framework
A MonoGame 3D Model alternative.
⚠️ Temporary pre-requirements ⚠️
This project requires compiling complex effect shaders with +256 techniques.
Current version of MonoGame, 3.8.0.1641, is not able to do that and will fail to compile.
The issue has been recently resolved and it's available in MonoGame's development branch.
MonoGame's minimum version required is: 3.8.1.1825-develop
Also Visual Studio 2022 required for Net6
Overview
MonoScene is a framework that replaces the very outdated 3D model architecture currently available in MonoGame, providing a number of much needed features:
- PBR effect shaders.
- Full skeleton animation.
- Loading asset models at runtime.
Architecture:
By design, the data flow of the framework looks like this:
3D Assets ⇒ Pipeline ⇒ Content ⇒ Runtime
The project is split into 3 sections:
- Pipeline: utilities and classes to help importing 3D asset files.
- Content: classes used to define an intermediate representation of 3D model.
- Runtime: framework to consume and render 3D content objects.
Limitations
MonoGame's Content Pipeline
Right now, It is not possible to load glTFs through Monogame's old content processing pipeline;
glTFs need to be loaded at runtime, so only projects able to consume MonoScene.Pipeline.GLTF library
will be able to load glTFs.
Animations
- Due to limitations in the rendering API of MonoGame, glTF's morphing features are not supported.
- Maximum number of bones is limited to 72 bones with SkinnedEffect (as usual) and 128 bones with PBR effects.
Textures
Textures are loaded using Monogame's Texture2D.FromStream, which means all of its limitations apply:
- No Mipmaps
- glTF texture formats WEBP and Universal Basis KTX2 can't be loaded.