Flyweight Pattern int Urho3D?

Hello everyone,

This case is that I made a small game like minecraft.

I afraid it is terrible to loading thousands cube model to scene.

But , If I loading only one cube model in memory and shared it to others , it also need to send thousands cube data to GPU,

Is possible to shared the cube on GPU with Urho3D, like Geometry_instacing with OpenGL or D3D.

: I am not familiar to Geometry_instacing…

All objects with same model and material are automatically instanced as long as your GPU supports it.

The commonplace guideline is to build voxel data geometry manually. For example, via CustomGeometry in Urho. It’s not so hard and it’s more performant than any generic solution.

oh, thanks , where can I find sample code about CustomGeometry?
just need some few lines code

Here’s a simple one.

The web information : Sorry, you don’t have access to that topic!

You could see some examples if you search CustomGeometry over codebase:

Found the solution here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNT8SMlqLJA1

#create 2d ortho camera

scene_ = new Scene(context_);
scene_->CreateComponent<Octree>();

// Create camera node
cameraNode_ = scene_->CreateChild("Camera");
// Set camera's position
cameraNode_->SetPosition(Vector3(0.0f, 0.0f, -10.0f));

Camera* camera = cameraNode_->CreateComponent<Camera>();
camera->SetOrthographic(true);

Graphics* graphics = GetSubsystem<Graphics>();
camera->SetOrthoSize((float)graphics->GetHeight() * PIXEL_SIZE);

// custom geometry lambda
auto triangleMan = [&](){

// classical one up
// center of screen, ortho 2d elevation
auto scp = camera->ScreenToWorldPoint(Vector3(0.5f,0.5f,-1));
triangleNode = scene_->CreateChild("triangleNode");
CustomGeometry* cg = triangleNode->CreateComponent<CustomGeometry>();
cg->Clear();
cg->SetNumGeometries(1);
cg->BeginGeometry(0, PrimitiveType::TRIANGLE_LIST);
cg->DefineVertex(Vector3(-1,0,0));
cg->DefineColor(Color::GREEN);
cg->DefineVertex(Vector3(0,1,0));
cg->DefineColor(Color::RED);
cg->DefineVertex(Vector3(1,0,0));
cg->DefineColor(Color::BLUE);
Material* mat = new Material(context_);
auto teq = cache->GetResource<Technique("Techniques/NoTextureUnlitVCol.xml");
mat->SetTechnique(0, teq);
cg->SetMaterial(mat);
mat->SetFillMode(FillMode::FILL_SOLID);
cg->Commit();
triangleNode->SetPosition(scp);

// black one down
scp = camera->ScreenToWorldPoint(Vector3(0.5f,0.5f,-1));
Node* lineNode2 = scene_->CreateChild("lineNode2");
cg = lineNode2->CreateComponent<CustomGeometry>();
cg->Clear();
cg->SetNumGeometries(1);
cg->BeginGeometry(0, PrimitiveType::TRIANGLE_LIST);
cg->DefineVertex(Vector3(1,0,0));
cg->DefineVertex(Vector3(0,-1,0));
cg->DefineVertex(Vector3(-1,0,0));
cg->DefineColor(Color::WHITE);
mat = new Material(context_);
mat->SetFillMode(FillMode::FILL_SOLID);
cg->SetMaterial(mat);
cg->Commit();
lineNode2->SetPosition(scp)
};

triangleMan();

thank you all,
very nice!!!

Hi!, do you know how to produce shadow of CustomGeometry?

Well, should be the same as for any other Drawable, just turn on “Cast Shadows”

I just draw a single triangle in scene , it work well with CustomGeometry, and I SetCastShadows(true);
it doesn’t work…
::else object in scene have shadow normally.

SharedPtr<Node>  TriangleNode(scene_->CreateChild("triangleNode"));
CustomGeometry * cg = TriangleNode->CreateComponent<CustomGeometry>();
cg->Clear();
cg->SetNumGeometries(1);
cg->BeginGeometry(0, PrimitiveType::TRIANGLE_LIST);

cg->DefineVertex(Vector3(-1,0,0));
cg->DefineColor(Color::GREEN);
cg->DefineVertex(Vector3(0,100,0));
cg->DefineColor(Color::RED);
cg->DefineVertex(Vector3(1,0,0));
cg->DefineColor(Color::BLUE);
Material* mat = new Material(context_);
auto teq = cache->GetResource<Technique>("Techniques/NoTextureUnlitVCol.xml");
mat->SetTechnique(0, teq);
cg->SetMaterial(mat);
mat->SetFillMode(FillMode::FILL_SOLID);
cg->SetCastShadows(true);
cg->Commit();

it need a thickness ?

Standard material may cast shadows only from back faces.
You should either tune material or generate enclosed two-sided surfaces