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
• NxParameterized
  • Introduction
  • NxParameterized interfaces
    • Interface
    • Definition
    • Handle
    • Hint
    • Serializer
    • Traits
  • NxParameterized basic types
    • Accessing parameters
    • TYPE_STRUCT
    • TYPE_ARRAY
    • TYPE_POINTER
    • TYPE_STRING
    • TYPE_ENUM
    • TYPE_REF
  • Hints
  • Serialization
  • Inplace deserialization
  • Versioning
• Framework Interfaces
  • Initialization
  • Loading Modules
  • Creating Scenes
    • Multiple 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
    • NxApexRenderable 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
  • NxRenderMeshAssetAuthoring Interface
    • NxRenderMeshAssetAuthoring::SubmeshDesc
  • NxVertexBuffer Interface
  • NxVertexFormat Interface
• D3D/OGL CUDA Interop
  • Requirements
  • Detailed Explanation
  • Notes
• Collision Groups
  • PhysX SDK 2.8 Collision Groups
    • System 1
    • System 2
    • Simple usage of System 2
    • Example Usage of System 2
• 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
• APEX Automatic LOD
  • Benefit
    • Solid angle importance
    • Compact solid angle importance
    • Age importance
  • Cost
  • Budget

API

• Framework API
• PxTask API