PBR rendering in vvvv with mp.dx and FBX4V

Who was the target audience of the workshop?
People who usually work with more complex 3D scenes from a 3D package (like Maya or Cinema4D) and want to render them pretty in vvvv.

What did attendees of the workshop learn?
First we went through importing FBX files, what bottlenecks there can be (we looked a bad Maya example too and a way to fix it), which features are supported and a little intro how to start using them in vvvv.  Then we went into managing geometry, subsets, instancing and pipeline. We covered some potentially non-trivial geometry specific tricks which can be done with vanilla DX11 and which are excessively exploited in mp.dx and FBX4V (like defines or dynamic shaders). We also dealt with animation loaded from FBX like skeletal (skinning), blendshapes and rigid transforms through provided examples. Then we went to material handling for subsets / material vertex groups via an advanced PBR base shader which can provide a good foundation for most deferred lighting pipelines. We covered the one which is inside mp.dx currently called PBRIBL, which is image based lighting only yet but there are high priority plans for culled dynamic lighting.

Note:
Graphical pipelines demonstrated in this workshop inside mp.dx is a replacement for Emeshe 2.2 contribution.