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Michael Dunsky is an educated electronics technician, game developer, and console porting programmer with more than 20 years of programming experience. He started at the age of 14 with BASIC, adding on his way Assembly language, C, C++, Java, Python, VHDL, OpenGL, GLSL, and Vulkan to his portfolio. During his career, he also gained extensive knowledge in virtual machines, server operation, infrastructure automation, and other DevOps topics. Michael holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the FernUniversität in Hagen, focused on computer graphics, parallel programming and software systems.
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Gabor Szauer has been making games since 2010. He graduated from Full Sail University in 2010 with a bachelor's degree in game development. Gabor maintains an active Twitter presence, and maintains a programming-oriented game development blog. Gabor's previously published books are Game Physics Programming Cookbook and Lua Quick Start Guide, both published by Packt.
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Splitting the model class into two parts

Right now, the code is made to show only a single glTF model. The options to show the model or the skeleton, the drawing settings, and the animation properties were created to support one and only one model on the screen. To render multiple models, we must adjust the application code.

In a naive solution, we would simply loop over a vector of glTF models and do all the preparation and drawing steps for every model. This way of drawing models works, but the loading and data extraction phases will take a lot of time and waste space in the main memory, as we need to add vertex data and animation clips to every single model.

To achieve proper instancing, we will split the model class into two separate classes. The original GltfModel class will keep the shared data for all instances, and a new GltfInstance class will maintain the variable per-instance data.

The full code for this section is available in the chapter14 folder, in the 01_opengl_instances...

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Michael Dunsky

Michael Dunsky is an educated electronics technician, game developer, and console porting programmer with more than 20 years of programming experience. He started at the age of 14 with BASIC, adding on his way Assembly language, C, C++, Java, Python, VHDL, OpenGL, GLSL, and Vulkan to his portfolio. During his career, he also gained extensive knowledge in virtual machines, server operation, infrastructure automation, and other DevOps topics. Michael holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the FernUniversität in Hagen, focused on computer graphics, parallel programming and software systems.
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Gabor Szauer

Gabor Szauer has been making games since 2010. He graduated from Full Sail University in 2010 with a bachelor's degree in game development. Gabor maintains an active Twitter presence, and maintains a programming-oriented game development blog. Gabor's previously published books are Game Physics Programming Cookbook and Lua Quick Start Guide, both published by Packt.
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