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 Based on the mesh loading example, this example loads and displays a rigged COLLADA model including animations. Bone weights are extracted for each vertex and are passed to the vertex shader together with the final bone transformation matrices for vertex position calculations.
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+## [Particle system](particlefire/)
+<img src="./screenshots/particlefire.png" height="96px" align="right">
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+Point sprite based particle system simulating a fire. Particles and their attributes are stored in a host visible vertex buffer that's updated on the CPU on each frame. Also makes use of pre-multiplied alpha for rendering particles with different blending modes (smoke and fire) in one single pass. 
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 ## [Push constants](pushconstants/)
 <img src="./screenshots/push_constants.png" height="96px" align="right">