Animated Vertice Shader

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I’m neither Drwr nor rdb but one of them already answered that question

[hardware animated vertices and GL_ARB_vertex_blend)

@drwr

This is an outdated extension. It was intended to implemented GPU skinning on a fixed-function card. It was never really very widely implemented, and not really useful even when graphics drivers implemented it. In modern graphics drivers, it is preferred to write a custom shader to handle the GPU skinning instead.

Unfortunately, Panda doesn’t provide any hooks into such a custom shader, and would not be able to load your standard animation files into the custom shader. You would have to write all of the required infrastructure yourself.

One day we hope to provide these kinds of hooks, when some industrious volunteer adds the needed code to Panda. Until then, you will have to stick with CPU skinning.

David