ModelIO

Rendering 3D Text with Core Text and libtess2

9 Comments / Intermediate, MetalKit, ModelIO, Rendering, Text / February 25, 2020

In this article, we’ll discuss how to create and render 3D text with Metal. Most applications need to render text, and there are many techniques for drawing 2D text with graphics APIs, from pre-rasterized font atlases, to signed-distance field methods like Chris Green’s seminal work at Valve or GLyphy, to cutting-edge vector-based solutions like Slug. …

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Rendering Physically-Based ModelIO Materials

1 Comment / Advanced, MetalKit, ModelIO, Physically-Based Rendering / February 25, 2020

In this article, we’ll take a look at a portion of the ModelIO framework we haven’t used so far: materials. In previous articles, we’ve used ModelIO to do the heavy lifting of loading 3D geometry, but have loaded and applied textures manually. This ad hoc approach works when we only have a base color map, …

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