Extensions (NvBlastExt)

These are the current Blast extensions:

Damage Shaders (NvBlastExtShaders) - Standard damage shaders (radial, shear, line segment) which can be used in NvBlast and NvBlastTk damage functions.

Stress Solver (NvBlastExtStress) - A toolkit for performing stress calculations on low-level Blast actors, using a minimal API to assign masses and apply forces. Does not use any external physics library.

Asset Utilities (NvBlastExtAssetUtils) - NvBlastAsset utility functions. Add world bonds, merge assets, and transform geometric data.

Asset Authoring (NvBlastExtAuthoring) - Powerful tools for cleaning and fracturing meshes using voronoi, clustered voronoi, and slicing methods.

Serialization (NvBlastExtSerialization) - Blast object serialization manager. With the ExtTkSerialization and ExtPxSerialization extensions, can serialize assets for low-level, Tk, and ExtPhysX libraries using a variety of encodings. This extension comes with low-level serializers built-in.

BlastTk Serialization (NvBlastExtTkSerialization) - This module contains serializers for NvBlastTk objects. Use in conjunction with ExtSerialization.

To use them, include the appropriate headers in include/extensions (each extension will describe which headers are necessary), and link to the desired NvBlastExt*{config}{arch} library in the lib folder. Here, config is the usual DEBUG/CHECKED/PROFILE (or nothing for release), and {arch} distinguishes achitecture, if needed (such as _x86 or _x64).

Contents

• Damage Shaders (NvBlastExtShaders)
• Stress Solver (NvBlastExtStress)
  • Features
  • Settings Tuning
  • Usage
• Asset Utilities (NvBlastExtAssetUtils)
  • Add World Bonds
  • Merge Assets
  • Transform In-Place
• Asset Authoring (NvBlastExtAuthoring)
  • FractureTool
  • Mesh Restrictions
  • ConvexMeshBuilder
  • BondGenerator
  • MeshCleaner
• Serialization (NvBlastExtSerialization)
  • Introduction
  • Serialization (writing)
  • Deserialization (reading)
  • Detecting the Object Type in a Buffer
  • Cleaning Up
• BlastTk Serialization (NvBlastExtTkSerialization)