Month: May 2012

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3d

3D turntables using b3d (a stage3d engine)

Hooked up b3d to bdj, a little mp3 wrapper for advanced mp3 playback and this was the result:

 

Added another video (higher res)…


demo features:

(runs at 60 fps on my machine, just down to 25-26 while recording)

bdj

  • crossfade
  • volume
  • pitch adjustment
  • addition bend
  • and all the usual stuff like: play pause stop seek cue…

b3d

  • mouse ray generation
  • ray plane intersections (for the mouse dragging)
  • as3 native rendering for the interactive areas
  • screen space anti aliasing (experimental)
  • a fast bloom filter
  • a fast DOF filter

If anyone wants more info, or for me to upload a better/longer video or a live playable demo just shout. and I will see what I can do.

 

things to note:

in order to play tracks backwards and pitch them smoothly I had to cache the whole track as a bytearray 1st, although you can extract on the fly it takes about twice as long (not an issue on higher end machines but a problem all the same… oh for a faster as3).

 

 

Acknowledgements:

Lee Brimelow (gave me the idea when he first posted this…)

http://www.leebrimelow.com/?p=1129

The code for playing an mp3 in reverse came from a response to lees post.

Andre Michelle (some great code)

http://blog.andre-michelle.com/2009/pitch-mp3/

DanceDreemer for the model on turbosquid

Music: Usher – Yeah (Speedbreaker remix), Scatman 2003

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Updated Stress Test (4000+ individually transformed normal mapped meshes at 60FPS)

Should run a bit faster across all machines.

 

update includes:

  • faster matrix composition
  • bare minimum uploads to GPU by combining the various techniques used in the material into one on the fly.
  • added another material into the demo (normal mapped)
  • added other meshes to you can try and identify where the limits are.. geometry bound or draw call bound

 

link to updated demo:

http://bwhiting.co.uk/b3d/stress2/

 

controls (as before but also):

p – turns of mouse look

n – changes the mesh being rendered

 

Quick tip, go full screen in your browser to maintain access to all the keyboard short-cuts. (click the title bar and hit F11 is the usual command I think)

As before any feedback on performance would be great, there is still room for gains but fir the time being I am happy. Would love to hear what someone with an i7 and a beast of a graphics card can achieve.

 

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