ZivaRT Player component

The ZivaRT Player component is a necessary part in allowing users to produce film-quality shape deformation results in real time within Unity.

The component enables Unity to deform the assigned mesh following the trained data. The mesh's deformation process is configurable through the parameters assigned to the ZivaRT Player component.

Deformation inputs

Property	Description
Rig	ZivaRT asset used to deform the target character mesh.
Source Mesh	Source Mesh that the Ziva Rig will deform. A copy will be created for the deformation.
Animation Root	The animation root from which the animation should be applied.
Game Object Root	The root of the GameObject which the ZivaRT is assigned to.
Use Mesh Transform Registration	Applies the local transform of the Skinned Mesh during the vertex correspondence registration step. It can also help resolve registration failures caused by mismatched mesh transforms.

Runtime settings

Property		Description
Implementation		The technique used to perform the Ziva deformation on a Ziva deformed object.
	Burst Jobs	The deformation is executed using CPU side burst jobs with the results being applied to the target mesh. The results can be accessed on the CPU side for further operations.
	Compute Shaders	The deformation is executed on the GPU using a compute shader with the result only being accessible on the GPU.
	Mono	The deformation is executed on the CPU using standard C# with the results being applied to the target mesh. The results can be accessed on the CPU side for further operations.
Scheduling Mode		How to run Job Solver's jobs.
	Main Thread	Run the Job Solver on Unity's main thread.
	Single Worker Thread	Run the Job Solver on a single worker thread separate from the Main thread.
	Multiple Worker Threads	Run the Job Solver on multiple parallelized worker threads.
Recalculate Tangent Frames		Determines whether the solver should recompute target mesh normals and tangents each frame.
	None	Doesn't recompute the mesh's normals or tangents.
	Normals Only	Only recomputes the mesh normals.
	Normals and Tangents	Recomputes both the mesh normals and tangents.
Late Update Execution		Whether to start deformation calculations in the LateUpdate phase or normal Update phase.
Multithreaded Joint Updates		Whether to execute joint transform updates on multiple threads. This delays solver execution to LateUpdate.
Calculate Motion Vectors		Whether to calculate motion vectors for deformed positions.

Debugging

Property	Description
Enable Correctives	Whether to apply pre-skinning correctives from the ZivaRT solver (used for debugging).
Enable Skinning	Whether to apply skinning to the mesh using the ZivaRT solver (used for debugging).
Shader Data	ZivaRT shader data used for mesh deformation.
Draw Debug Vertices	Whether to draw the vertices of the ZivaRT asset. This can be used to diagnose problems with vertex correspondence registration. The vertices of the Source Mesh must line up with these vertices.
Suppress Geometry Warning Messages	Whether to print warnings about problems found in the geometry of the Source Mesh, for example triangles without a well-formed UV basis for normal mapping.