Lab-5 Edge Collapse

Installation on Windows:

It is recommended to use an IDE (CLion, Visual Studio, ...) but everything can be done without as well

To use the Framework using Visual Studio or CLion you can follow this video.

Requirements:

• git
• cmake
• make for windows
• compiler and cmake generator i.e. MinGW-w64

Note: One way to install MinGW 64:

• install MSYS2
• open the newly installed MSYS2 Shell
• install MinGW 64 using the MSYS2 Shell

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc

• add the folder MSYS2_root/mingw64/bin (i.e. C:\msys64\mingw64\bin) to your PATH environment variable

You can also follow this tutorial to install MinGW 64.

Step 0: open the windows console (cmd) and go into the folder where the project files should be saved

Step 1: clone the repository

git clone --recursive https://github.com/Realtime-Rendering-II/Lab_5.git

Note: this will copy the necessary project files into the current directory.

Step 2: create a build folder in the project folder

cd Lab_5
mkdir build

Step 3: open cmake-gui:

select the source (C:\..\Lab_5) and build folder (C:\..\Lab_5\build)
click "generate" and select the cmake generator
(in this case MinGW Makefiles is chosen)
Note: make sure the environment variable for the generator is set

If the generation was successful it should look like this:

Step4: go into the build folder and make the project

cd build
make

If the make command was executed successfully it should look like this:

Step 5: execute the application:

.\main.exe

Note: If your project is build in a different folder you have to take care of the shader-paths

Installation on Linux:

It is recommended to use an IDE (CLion, Visual Studio, ...) but everything can be done without as well

Step 0: open a terminal

Step 1: install dependencies

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git cmake libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev libxi-dev libglu1-mesa-dev

Step 2: clone the repository

git clone --recursive https://github.com/Realtime-Rendering-II/Lab_5.git

Step 3: create a build folder in the project folder

cd Lab_5
mkdir build

Step 4: inside the build folder generate the cmake project

cd build
cmake ..

Step 5: make the project and execute the application

make
./main

Video:

You can see the edge collapse in action here

Images:

Edge collapses visualised:

Cube 0 edge collapses:

Cube 1 edge collaps:

Cube 2 edge collapses:

Cube 3 edge collapses:

Cube 4 edge collapses:

Cube 5 edge collapses: