Basics

These tutorials explain the features of the Ramses Composer, how to import, manage, modify and export your data.

Introduction

• Introduction
  • What is Ramses Composer?
  • User interface overview
  • Asset types and tools
  • Ramses Composer Editor
  • Ramses Composer Headless
  • Feature Levels

A cube

• ‘Hello world’ cube example
  • Contents explained
  • Scene graph
  • Resources
  • Saving the project
  • Export glTF from Blender
  • Recreate cube sample

A monkey head

• Monkey example
  • Scene graph and resources
  • Lua Scripting
  • What does the Lua script do?
  • Create Suzanne in Blender
  • Recreate monkey sample

Object types

• Data and scope
  • Composer data and imported resources
  • Composer data and exported binary files
  • Scene Graph objects
  • Copy and Deep Copy
  • Mapping to Ramses objects
  • Additional note on prefabs
  • Default Resources

Export

• Exporting to Ramses
  • Exporting in the GUI
  • Exporting in the headless version

Android app

• Writing an Android app
  • Creating an empty Android app
  • Adding Ramses as dependency
  • Creating a scene thread
  • Replace the TextView with a SurfaceView in the Activity layout
  • Exporting a binary version of the asset
  • Loading the assets
  • Improve the lifecycle
  • Fix the viewport
  • Doing more interesting things
  • See a more complex app example

Prefabs

• Prefabs
  • Prefab concept
  • Setting up the example
  • Creating the Prefab
  • Instancing the Prefab
  • Tips and Tricks

Conventions

• Conventions
  • Coordinate systems
  • Blender’s glTF exporter and the +Y axis
  • Rendering order
  • Attributes
  • Struct and Array Uniforms
  • Semantic Uniforms
  • Shader Includes
  • Texture Loading and Conversion

Lua

• Lua Syntax
  • Introduction to Lua
  • Understanding errors
  • Shortcuts and Tricks
  • Complex scripts

Render Pipeline

• Render Pipeline
  • Render passes
  • Render targets
  • Render buffers
  • Render layers

Render order

• Render Order
  • Ordering example
  • Contents of a Ramses Composer project
  • Ordering techniques
  • Combining the techniques

Offscreen rendering

• Offscreen rendering example
  • Scene graph and resources
  • A note on performance
  • Recreate this sample

Multisampling

• Multisampling example
  • Scene graph and resources
  • MSAA rendering
  • Displaying multisample renderbuffer contents
  • Preview MSAA settings

BlitPass

• BlitPass example
  • Scene graph and resources
  • Offscreen rendering
  • BlitPass
  • Displaying offscreen buffers contents

Stencil testing

• Stencil Testing, Scissor Testing, and Color Write Mask
  • Stencil Testing
  • Outline example
  • Scissor testing
  • Color write mask

Advanced

Lua modules

• Lua Modules
  • What are modules good for?
  • Copy paste
  • Creating the light module
  • Using the module
  • Notes on the LightModule
  • Recreate modules sample

Complex import

• Complex glTF import
  • A general note on glTF data structures and exporters
  • Scene graph and resources
  • Experiment one: Playing with the mesh index
  • Experiment two: Modifying the source content
  • A note on materials
  • glTF import details
  • General note on Blender modifiers

Animations

• Animations
  • A general note on animation data
  • Creating a simple animation with Blender
  • Importing the animation

Morphing

• Morphing
  • Introduction
  • Import from glTF File
  • Setting up the shader
  • Animation
  • Limitations

Skinning

• Vertex Skinning
  • Introduction to vertex skinning
  • Importing from glTF
  • Setting up the shader
  • Control via animations
  • Multiple joints/weight sets

Nesting prefabs

• Complex Prefabs
  • Exporting the meshes from Blender
  • Setting up the meshes
  • The wheel Prefab
  • The axle Prefab
  • The car Prefab
  • Fine tuning the Prefab
  • The SUV Prefab

Project referencing

• External References
  • The Concept
  • Update Timing
  • Using External Resources
  • Project Browser
  • Using External Prefabs
  • Editing and Updating
  • Removing External References
  • Splitting existing Projects into Modules
  • Moving Project Files

Python API

• Python API Reference
  • Running Python Scripts
  • Writing Python Scripts for Ramses Composer
  • raco module reference
  • raco_gui module reference

Android Studio integration

• Automatic binary generation
  • Typical artist workflow
  • Add the plugin
  • How it works

Best practices

• Best Practices
  • Folder Layout
  • Relative and Absolute Paths
  • File Version Handling

Trace player

• TracePlayer
  • Basic usage
  • The .rctrace File Format
  • TracePlayerData
  • Example (BMW X5)