Augment Your Reality Safely - Reflections on AR and Other Things

NOTE: This tutorial was written for TressFX 4.22, which has since been updated by AMD. The newer version is not the same as the version I am using, code-wise nor feature-wise. In this quick tutorial, I'm going to walk through creating a fork of Unreal Engine 4, and using the 4.22 branch, clone 4.22 to my local machine, and add the TressFX 4.1 for Unreal Engine 4.22.3 patch. After making sure the engine compiles, I'll create some hair for the main mannequin (I'm calling it Manny) and import that hair, then attaching it via the TressFX components. To do this yourself, you will need to compile the Unreal engine. That also means you need to sign the Epic Unreal Engine EULA so you can get access to their private GitHub site. My fork of their engine, plus the TressFX 4.1 Unreal Engine 4.22 engine 'patch' are both also resident on Unreal's GitHub repository, so joining Epic's developer community is a requirement. You will also need Visual Studio 2017 (Commun...

I'm starting a new series of posts. It's been awhile, I know, but like most of us, life happens - especially work projects. LOL  As for me, a quick re-introduction may be in order. I started as a research scientist (Physics and Mathematics), changed over to multimedia/C++ programming at Microsoft, first supporting Microsoft's partners and customers in the developer community, then in both the Consumer Division and a advanced research products group as a s/w design engineer. I went into independent consulting for awhile, and supplemented that with writing (usually about coding, or as a combination programmer/writer), got truly excited about the possibilities of embedded videos and augmented reality in books, and Unity shaders (Cg/HLSL) during my masters work, and recently ended up working on TressFX where I had my mind blown by the wonders of the power of the GPU and the tangled terror that is something as huge as Unreal engine. So you might as well know now, that I'm ...