APEX Programmers Guide

Contents:

• Introduction
  • Motivation
  • The NVIDIA APEX Solution
  • Definitions
  • Directory Structure
  • Version Numbers
• Deployment
  • How to build
  • Build Configurations
  • The legacy module
  • What to ship
  • Application GUID (Windows only)
• Assets and Actors
  • Authorable Objects
  • Asset Data Flow
  • Level Editor and Level Loading
  • Asset Authoring Class
  • Asset Class
  • Asset Inclusion
  • Asset Referencing
  • Actor Class
  • Actor Context
• Framework Interfaces
  • Initialization
  • Loading Modules
  • Creating Scenes
    • Using CUDA
  • Loading Assets
    • Asset Authoring
    • Creating an Asset from an Authoring Class
    • Creating an Authoring from an Asset Class
    • Loading All Assets at Once
  • Instantiating Actors
  • Named Resource Provider
    • NRP Well Known Namespaces
  • Render Mesh Asset
  • Render Resources Interface
    • Renderable Actor Interface
    • User Implemented Classes
    • APEX Scene Based Render Resource Updating
    • Ad-Hoc Render Resource Updating
    • Example Overview
  • Materials
    • Default Material Library Implementation
  • Asynchronous Simulation Interface
  • Buffered API
  • View Matrix and the Projection Matrix
  • Level of Detail
  • Scalable Parameters
  • Ownership of PhysX SDK Objects
  • Serialization
  • Asset Preview
    • Asset Preview Colors
  • Errors and Warnings
• Render Mesh Asset Interfaces
  • RenderMeshAssetAuthoring Interface
    • RenderMeshAssetAuthoring::SubmeshDesc
  • VertexBuffer Interface
  • VertexFormat Interface
• D3D/OGL CUDA Interop
  • Requirements
  • Detailed Explanation
  • Notes
• PhysX Visual Debugger
  • Introduction
  • Get PVD
  • Supported Configurations
  • Connecting to PVD
  • Example
  • Android Notes
• Debug Visualization
  • Introduction
  • Framework Parameters
  • Module List
  • Examples
  • Debug Rendering Colors