Minko Weekly Roundup #4

Features

• The JointsDebugController makes it possible to display the joints and bones of a skinned mesh in order to check if everything works as expected.
• The VertexPositionDebugController will display the position of each vertex of a mesh.
• The VertexNormalDebugController will display the normal of each vertex. You can use it with the VertexNormalShader to display and debug the normals of a mesh.

Examples

• VertexIterator Example
• JointsDebugController Example

Answers

• Mapping Flex UI components to textures in Minko: an interesting thread about how to emulate mouse-enabled 2D components - such as Flex components - mapped as 3D textures

Tutorials

• Display the position and the normal of each vertex
• Display the bones and joints of a skeleton
• Select scene nodes with XPath

Fixes

• minko-collada will now load the vertex RGBA data when it's available
• min/max computation is always possible upon creation of a VertexStream regardless of its StreamUsage
• frustum culling will now also test the center of the bounding box and not only the 8 corners