06-CubeMapArray

Cube Map Array Tutorial

Windows (DirectX 12)	Linux (Vulkan)	MacOS (Metal)	iOS (Metal)
			* No simulator support

This tutorial demonstrates cube-map array texturing and sky-box rendering with Methane Kit:

• CubeMapArrayApp.h
• CubeMapArrayApp.cpp
• Shaders/CubeMapArray.hlsl
• Shaders/CubeMapArrayUniforms.h

Tutorial demonstrates the following techniques:

• Loading face images to cube map texture and using it for sky-box rendering in background;
• Creating cube-map array render target texture;
• Rendering text labels to the faces of cube-map array texture via separate render passes using helper class TextureLabeler;
• Instanced rendering of multiple cubes displaying all faces of the pre-rendered cube-map array texture;
• Using Sky-box rendering extension with panoramic cube-map texture loaded from image files.

Application Controls

Common keyboard controls are enabled by the Platform, Graphics and UserInterface application controllers:

• Methane::Platform::AppController
• Methane::Graphics::AppController, AppContextController
• Methane::UserInterface::AppController

Continue learning

Continue learning Methane Graphics programming in the next tutorial ParallelRendering, which is demonstrating multi-threaded rendering with IParallelRenderCommandList.