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A Pipeline for

Authored Structural Damage

Homam Bahnassi and Wessam Bahnassi

3.1 Introduction

There are scenarios in which a game needs to show damage and injuries to char-

acters and buildings. Severe damage cannot be conveyed acceptably by classic

decal approaches, as the structure of the object itself changes. For example, a

character might have holes in its body, or severed limbs, or a building fa¸cade

might take rocket damage in various locations causing holes in the structure.

In this article, we present a description of a full pipeline for implementing

structural damage to characters and other environmental objects that is com-

parable to previous ...