Getting Started

Build

You are already quite familar with the graphics projects, so TL;DR:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make -j8

Execution

cd build
./bin/skinning ../assets/pmd/Meiko_Sakine.pmd

You need to provide a .pmd file to launche the skinning code. A set of PMD files have been shipped under assets/pmd directory.

Notes about the skeletion code

The skeleton code is trimmed from the reference code, which has a RenderClass to simplify the multi-pass rendering. However, this class is somewhat sophisticated. If you find it is quite hard to understand the RenderClass, do NOT use it. Testing your C++ skill is not a part of this assignment.

Package for submission

The submitted package assumes the same file structure as the published one. You should check your submission with the command

./skinning_testpackage.sh <your package file name>

You should get a "Build successfully" message from the script, and a skinning.bin as the build result.

skinning_testpackage.sh is a script under the skinning/ directory.

WARNING: THIS SCRIPT RUNS rm -rf skinning AS THE LAST STEP FOR CLEAN UP. BACKUP YOUR CODE AND RUN IT IN A SAFE PLACE (LIKE $HOME/tmp) TO AVOID ANY POSSIBLE DISASTER.

Acknowledgement

This bone animation code is based on the skinning project written by Randall Smith for 2015 Spring Graphics Course.

The PMD parser library is written by itsuhane, licensed under Boost Software License.