Animated characters performance

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It requires a custom shader. If the ShaderAttrib isn’t flagged as supporting skinning, it will fall back to CPU animation. Perhaps in a future version of Panda3D we can automatically inject this into the shader.

I highly recommend this, because doing the calculations on the CPU is quite slow. It just requires a small change to the vertex shader.

See this post for an example shader:

Hardware Skinning

EDIT: Now also supported in the automatic shader generator. To enable it, you need these settings: hardware-animated-vertices true basic-shaders-only false You also need to call setShaderAuto() on the actor in question. The Cg and Shader Generator support will be 1.10.0 and above. I’ve backported the GLSL p3d_TransformTable support to 1.9.1 by user request. Hi all, I just checked in a change today that makes it more straightforward to implement skeleton animation in a shader using the exis…