Realtime Smooth for Objects

Real-time surface smoothing is a technology that enhances the look of 3d entities in your scene without sacrificing system performance. Real-time used to be synonymous with low polygon count, but by utilizing latent resources from your computer's GPU, iClone Character Creator is able to enhance polygon count in real-time, resulting in a smoother and more detailed surface appearance for low-poly objects.

In computer graphics, tessellation is used to manage vertex sets of objects in a scene and divide them into suitable structures for rendering. Especially for the real-time surface smoothing, data is tessellated into triangles, for example in DirectX 11 and OpenGL.

The Benefit of Realtime Smooth

Utilizing Realtime Smooth has some benefits inside iClone.

• Rendering : It provides better and smoother rendering results for the real-time preview.

  The Original hard edged silhouette and surfaces of the object.	Realtime Smooth smoothes out the angularity of the meshes.

• 3D Entities: It smoothens the 3D entities while still preserving the overall shape.

  The Original shape.	After being tessellated, the surfaces are smoothed while the original shape is kept.

• Project Size: It ensures the visual quality without increasing the size of the saved project (*.ccProject).

Realtime Smooth

The realtime smoothing can greatly enhance the appearance of objects. For demonstration, follow the steps below:

1. Select one of the 3D objects you want to apply the Realtime Smooth feature.
   
2. Execute the Edit >> Realtime Smooth command.
   
3. Smoothing applies to each object individually.
   

   Note:

   The real-time smooth in iClone Character Creator tessellates each triangle by adding two more vertices on every edge. The original topology with 2 triangle faces. Two vertices are added into each side of a triangle face.