animation_optimizer.h

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#ifndef OZZ_OZZ_ANIMATION_OFFLINE_ANIMATION_OPTIMIZER_H_
#define OZZ_OZZ_ANIMATION_OFFLINE_ANIMATION_OPTIMIZER_H_
 
#include "ozz/animation/offline/export.h"
#include "ozz/base/containers/map.h"
 
namespace ozz {
namespace animation {
 
// Forward declare runtime skeleton type.
class Skeleton;
namespace offline {
 
// Forward declare offline animation type.
struct RawAnimation;
 
// Defines the class responsible of optimizing an offline raw animation
// instance. Optimization is performed using a key frame reduction technique. It
// deciamtes redundant / interpolable key frames, within error tolerances given
// as input. The optimizer takes into account for each joint the error
// generated on its whole child hierarchy. This allows for example to take into
// consideration the error generated on a finger when optimizing the shoulder. A
// small error on the shoulder can be magnified when propagated to the finger
// indeed.
// It's possible to override optimization settings for a joint. This implicitely
// have an effect on the whole chain, up to that joint. This allows for example
// to have aggressive optimization for a whole skeleton, except for the chain
// that leads to the hand if user wants it to be precise. Default optimization
// tolerances are set in order to favor quality over runtime performances and
// memory footprint.
class OZZ_ANIMOFFLINE_DLL AnimationOptimizer {
 public:
  // Initializes the optimizer with default tolerances (favoring quality).
  AnimationOptimizer();
 
  // Optimizes _input using *this parameters. _skeleton is required to evaluate
  // optimization error along joint hierarchy (see hierarchical_tolerance).
  // Returns true on success and fills _output animation with the optimized
  // version of _input animation.
  // *_output must be a valid RawAnimation instance.
  // Returns false on failure and resets _output to an empty animation.
  // See RawAnimation::Validate() for more details about failure reasons.
  bool operator()(const RawAnimation& _input, const Skeleton& _skeleton,
                  RawAnimation* _output) const;
 
  // Optimization settings.
  struct Setting {
    // Default settings
    Setting()
        : tolerance(1e-3f),  // 1mm
          distance(1e-1f)    // 10cm
    {}
 
    Setting(float _tolerance, float _distance)
        : tolerance(_tolerance), distance(_distance) {}
 
    // The maximum error that an optimization is allowed to generate on a whole
    // joint hierarchy.
    float tolerance;
 
    // The distance (from the joint) at which error is measured (if bigger that
    // joint hierarchy). This allows to emulate effect on skinning.
    float distance;
  };
 
  // Global optimization settings. These settings apply to all joints of the
  // hierarchy, unless overriden by joint specific settings.
  Setting setting;
 
  // Per joint override of optimization settings.
  typedef ozz::map<int, Setting> JointsSetting;
  JointsSetting joints_setting_override;
};
}  // namespace offline
}  // namespace animation
}  // namespace ozz
#endif  // OZZ_OZZ_ANIMATION_OFFLINE_ANIMATION_OPTIMIZER_H_