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Wireframe Chams Rendering with Custom Geometry Shaders in DirectX 11

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12mo ago · Aug 22, 2025 3:17 PM

Using geometry shaders to calculate barycentric coordinates and render wireframe mesh triangles over character models.

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12mo ago · Aug 22, 2025 7:00 PM

The geometry shader outputs distance to opposite triangle edges. The pixel shader discards pixels where distance > wireframe_thickness.

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12mo ago · Aug 23, 2025 10:00 PM

Wireframe styling has a minimal visual footprint while clearly exposing character joint poses.

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