Ogre::StaticFaceGroup Struct Reference

Collects a group of static i.e. More...

#include <OgreStaticFaceGroup.h>

Public Attributes
int	elementStart
	Index into a buffer containing vertex indices.
FaceGroupType	fType
bool	isSky
	Is this a sky surface?
ResourceHandle	materialHandle
	Handle to material used by this group.
int	numElements
	The number of vertex indices.
int	numVertices
	The range of vertices in the buffer this facegroup references.
PatchSurface *	patchSurf
	Patch surface (only applicable when fType = FGT_PATCH)
Plane	plane
int	vertexStart
	Index into a buffer containing vertex definitions.

Detailed Description

Collects a group of static i.e.

immovable faces together which have common properties like the material they use, the plane they lie on.

Whilst for discrete geometry (i.e. movable objects) groups of faces are held in the SubMesh class, for immovable objects like scenery there needs to ba little more flexibility in the grouping since the group is likely to be a small part of a huge set of geometry. In addition, because the faces are unmoving certain optimisations can be performed, e.g. precalculating a world-coordinate bounding box and normal.

Exactly how this class is used depends on the format of the large static geometry used in the level. An example would be the use of this class in the BspNode class for indoor levels. For flexibility and efficiency, it is not assumed that this class holds details of the vertices itself, or in fact that it holds the vertex indices itself. Everything is manipulated via pointers so if you want this class to point into a block of geometry data it can.

Member Data Documentation

fType

FaceGroupType Ogre::StaticFaceGroup::fType

isSky

bool Ogre::StaticFaceGroup::isSky

Is this a sky surface?

vertexStart

int Ogre::StaticFaceGroup::vertexStart

Index into a buffer containing vertex definitions.

Because we're dealing with subsets of large levels this is likely to be part-way through a huge vertex buffer.

numVertices

int Ogre::StaticFaceGroup::numVertices

The range of vertices in the buffer this facegroup references.

This is really for copying purposes only, so that we know which subset of vertices to copy from our large-level buffer into the rendering buffer.

elementStart

int Ogre::StaticFaceGroup::elementStart

Index into a buffer containing vertex indices.

This buffer may be individual to this group or shared for memory allocation efficiency.The vertex indexes are relative the the mVertexStart pointer, not to the start of the large-level buffer, allowing simple reindexing when copying data into rendering buffers. This is only applicable to FGT_FACE_LIST face group types.

numElements

int Ogre::StaticFaceGroup::numElements

The number of vertex indices.

This is only applicable to FGT_FACE_LIST face group types.

materialHandle

ResourceHandle Ogre::StaticFaceGroup::materialHandle

Handle to material used by this group.

Note the use of the material handle rather than the material name - this is for efficiency since there will be many of these.

plane

Plane Ogre::StaticFaceGroup::plane

patchSurf

PatchSurface* Ogre::StaticFaceGroup::patchSurf

Patch surface (only applicable when fType = FGT_PATCH)

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The documentation for this struct was generated from the following file:

• OgreStaticFaceGroup.h