Maspack Reference Manual

Contents

• Preface
• 1 Properties
  • 1.1 Accessing Properties
    • 1.1.1 Why Property Handles?
  • 1.2 Property Ranges
  • 1.3 Obtaining Property Information
  • 1.4 Exporting Properties from a Class
    • 1.4.1 Read-only properties
    • 1.4.2 Inheriting Properties from a superclass
  • 1.5 Composite Properties
  • 1.6 Reading and Writing to Persistent Storage
  • 1.7 Inheritable Properties
  • 1.8 Exporting Inheritable Properties
  • 1.9 Inheritable and Composite Properties
• 2 Rendering
  • 2.1 Overview
    • 2.1.1 Renderables and Viewers
    • 2.1.2 A Complete Example
  • 2.2 Viewers
    • 2.2.1 Render lists
    • 2.2.2 Prerendering and Rendering
    • 2.2.3 Viewer renderables and external render lists
    • 2.2.4 Coordinate frames and view point control
    • 2.2.5 Lights
  • 2.3 The Renderer Interface
    • 2.3.1 Drawing single points and lines
    • 2.3.2 Drawing single triangles
    • 2.3.3 Colors and associated attributes
      • 2.3.3.1 Highlighting
    • 2.3.4 Drawing using draw mode
    • 2.3.5 Drawing solid shapes
    • 2.3.6 Shading and color mixing
    • 2.3.7 Vertex coloring, and color mixing and interpolation
    • 2.3.8 Changing the model matrix
    • 2.3.9 Render properties and RenderProps
      • 2.3.9.1 Drawing points and lines as 3D solid objects
      • 2.3.9.2 RenderProps taxonomy
      • 2.3.9.3 Renderer methods that use RenderProps
    • 2.3.10 Screen information and 2D rendering
    • 2.3.11 Depth offsets
    • 2.3.12 Maintaining the graphics state
    • 2.3.13 Text rendering
  • 2.4 Render Objects
    • 2.4.1 Building a render object
    • 2.4.2 “Current” attributes
    • 2.4.3 Maintaining consistent attributes
    • 2.4.4 Adding primitives in “build” mode
    • 2.4.5 Modifying render objects
    • 2.4.6 Drawing RenderObjects
    • 2.4.7 Multiple primitive groups
    • 2.4.8 Drawing primitive subsets
  • 2.5 Texture mapping
    • 2.5.1 Texture mapping properties
    • 2.5.2 Texturing example using draw mode
    • 2.5.3 Texturing example using a render object
  • 2.6 Mesh Renderers
  • 2.7 Object Selection
    • 2.7.1 Implementing custom selection
    • 2.7.2 Selection Events