Asteroids example

[pgruenbacher]

Implemented example for asteroids from https://github.com/GameTechDev/asteroids_d3d12.
The purpose meant for testing 1000+ components, custom mesh generation, instancing, batch rendering. It's also meant to serve as baseline benchmark against the GameFoundry/bsf#339 ECS implementation I've been investigating. Ideally the ECS demo should have much faster updating and render batching of the asteroids.
At the moment I just have it relatively working, but I'm not sure how to put in custom assets into bsfExample. I also wasn't sure how the original asteroids demo was doing UV mapping cause I couldn't find it in the code.

Some other things I noted:

        // this doesn't work, is an issue?
        // bool discard = false;
        // HMesh mesh = Mesh::create(meshDesc);
        // mesh->writeData(meshData, discard);
        // but initializing with meshData does work...
        HMesh mesh = Mesh::create(meshData);

I haven't implemented textures for the asteroids yet.

[pgruenbacher]

[pgruenbacher]

also will be good use-case for LOD too once the renderer supports LOD.

[BearishSun]

Nice work, very useful benchmark to have. Once you feel the benchmark is ready you can upload the assets somewhere and I'll add them to the data package.

[pgruenbacher]

Well the meshes are dynamically generated, and the intel demo has the textures dynamically generated too. The only asset is the space skymap. @BearishSun can you import dds texture as skymap? And how do you actually generate the .asset files? https://github.com/GameTechDev/asteroids_d3d12/blob/master/starbox_1024.dds

[BearishSun]

You import the raw resource and then save it: http://docs.bsframework.io/nightly/User_Manuals/Resources/resourceBasicsAndImport.html

I'm not sure if DDS is supported, quite possibly not.

[pgruenbacher]

oh ok. i wasn't sure if the bsfImportTool did that as well, but it gives no cli options so I wasn't sure.

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