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I can't think of much in regards to online resources or even anything that isn't fairly "raw."

Legacy

• Bones in faces are still normal
• Can still do them on the CPU in a dynamic VBO
• The old Dawn demo still works
• Chapter 10 in Computer Animation: Algorithms and Techniques
• Every cockamamie texture lookup approach you can imagine has been done

Modern

• Compute shaders
  • You can pack up a buffer with data for ALL morph-targets (another for indexes if indexing)
    • Then you reference a "morphs" list in the CS with the read-range and the write-range of the target
  • Do it during compute shader skinning
  • OR Do it during a blit-pass before skinning
  • OR Do it post-skinning, transform into a wold-space displacement and apply

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Caution note about FBX, the Blender idiots always export blend-shapes wrong so if you're working with the FBX-sdk directly (and not a wrapper that takes care of this) you'll need to check if the file came from Blender (if (fbxHeaderInfo && fbxHeaderInfo->mCreator.Lower().Find("blender") != -1) { fromBlender = true; }) and if so then do the appropriate conversion to your system because the FbxAxisSystem converter will not catch it right.

FBX stores morphs per Control-Point so if you aren't tracking colocals you're going to need to. std::multimap<uint /*ctrl-point*/, uint /*vertex index*/> will do.

When I started my job as C++ programmer I heard more than a few people mention Effective C++ by Scott Meyers.

I 100% recommend his books. He has quite a few, but the two I read were the original effective c++ and then the book he put out after cpp11 was released (the modern c++ version). The modern c++ doesn't replace the first, it just adds to it.

They're relatively short little books and I found them to have a good sense of humor.

original: https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Specific-Improve-Programs-Designs/dp/0321334876/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=effective+c%2B%2B&qid=1605278397&sr=8-2

modern c++ book: https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Modern-Specific-Ways-Improve/dp/1491903996/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=effective+c%2B%2B&qid=1605278397&sr=8-3

I read the modern book first, which I'm not sure if I recommend.

LearnOpenGL is a good starting point. I’m also reading Game Engine Architecture which I have found interesting but not been able to put into to practice yet.

I recommend you to read this book, It is about implementing mathematics in Python and after use what you have learned in another more game oriented high performance language like C++ and/or Rust

https://www.amazon.com/Math-Programmers-Paul-Orland/dp/1617295353