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		asiachick on Dec 31, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PortableGL: An implementation of OpenGL 3.x-ish in... Why is putting bone matrices in a texture awful? Seems great to me.

pcwalton on Dec 31, 2021 [–]

Because you're packing unbounded floating point values into an 8-bit RGBA unorm texture. Yes, it can be done. Dealing with the issues is annoying, though.

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