SkinnedEffect

This is a native Direct3D 11 implementation of the built-in SkinnedEffect from XNA Game Studio 4 which supports skinned animation with up to 72 bones and 1, 2, or 4 bone influences per vertex.

See also Effects

Header

#include <Effects.h>

Initialization

Construction requires a Direct3D 11 device.

std::unique_ptr<SkinnedEffect> effect;
effect = std::make_unique<SkinnedEffect>(device);

For exception safety, it is recommended you make use of the C++ RAII pattern and use a std::unique_ptr or std::shared_ptr

Interfaces

SkinnedEffect supports IEffect, IEffectMatrices, IEffectLights, and IEffectFog

Input layout

This effect requires NORMAL, TEXCOORD0, BLENDINDICES and BLENDWEIGHT.

Properties

• SetDiffuseColor: Sets the diffuse color of the effect. Defaults to white (1,1,1). Alpha channel (.w component) is ignored.

• SetEmissiveColor: Sets the emissive color of the effect. Defaults to black (0,0,0).

• SetSpecularColor: Sets the specular color of the effect. Defaults to white (1,1,1).

• SetSpecularPower: Sets the specular power of the effect. Defaults to 16. Settings power to 0 can cause strange rendering artifacts.

• DisableSpecular: Disables the specular lighting for the effect. Sets the color to black (0,0,0) and power to 1.

• SetAlpha: Sets the alpha (transparency) of the effect. Defaults to 1 (fully opaque).

• SetColorAndAlpha: Sets the diffuse color of the effect and the alpha (transparency).

• SetTexture: Associates a texture shader resource view with the effect. Can be set to nullptr to remove a reference.

Remarks

The effect always performs either vertex or per-pixel lighting.

This effect always performs texturing, so if 'untextured' rendering is desired you must provide texture coordinates, a sampler in slot 0, and a 1x1 texture with white (1,1,1,1).