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SceneNode Class

SceneNode class represents a basic component of a 3D scene that is composed of various SceneNodes organized in a hierarchical structure.
Inheritance Hierarchy
SystemObject
  Ab3d.DirectXDXResourceBase
    Ab3d.DirectXSharedDXResource
      Ab3d.DirectXSharedDXSceneResource
        Ab3d.DirectXSceneNode
          Ab3d.DirectX.ModelsWpfLightNode
          Ab3d.DirectXObjectNode

Namespace: Ab3d.DirectX
Assembly: Ab3d.DXEngine (in Ab3d.DXEngine.dll) Version: 7.0.8865.1045
Syntax
C#
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public class SceneNode : SharedDXSceneResource

The SceneNode type exposes the following members.

Constructors
 NameDescription
Public methodSceneNode Initializes a new instance of the SceneNode class.
Public methodSceneNode(String) Initializes a new instance of the SceneNode class.
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Properties
 NameDescription
Public propertyBounds Bounds (bounding box) of this object in local coordinates (transformed by transformation on this SceneNode but not with parent's transformations).
Public propertyChildNodes Gets a readonly collection of child SceneNodes
Public propertyChildNodesCount Gets a number of child SceneNodes count
Public propertyDirtyFlags Gets the current dirty flags
Public propertyIsActuallyVisible Gets a Boolean that specifies if this SceneNode and its Children are actually visible taking parents visibility into account - this.IsVisible is true and also the parent is visible.
Public propertyIsChildNodesListLocked Gets a boolean that specifies if ChildNodes for this SceneNode can be changed. This property is set to true with calling LockChildNodes method. After locking the child nodes, they cannot be unlocked any more. Note that this property is different from IsLocked property - that one prevent any change to SceneNode and can be unlocked.
Public propertyIsHitTestVisible Gets or sets a Boolean that specifies if this SceneNode and all its child SceneNodes are visible to hit testing (when false, then the object cannot be hit and the testing ray passes through this SceneNode and through its child SceneNodes).
Public propertyIsLocked Gets or sets a boolean that specified is this SceneNode can be changed or not. If true than this SceneNode cannot be changed any more. This also prevents checking DirtyFlags and calling Update method (calling NotifySceneNodeChange has no effect). SceneNode can be made locked with calling Lock method. It can be un-locked with calling UnLock method. Note that we can also lock only child nodes with calling LockChildNodes method.
Public propertyIsVisible Gets or sets a Boolean that specified is this SceneNode and its child SceneNodes are visible. This property may be true, but if parent's SceneNode is not visible, then this SceneNode will not be actually visible (this can be get from IsActuallyVisible). When IsVisible is set to false, the DirectX resources created with this SceneNode are not disposed (are still available). But when rendering the RenderablePrimitive objects that are created from this SceneNode are skipped when the scene is rendered. This makes hiding and showing ob SceneNodes very fast because only the visibility of the RenderablePrimitive is changed. If you want to release DirectX resources when hiding the SceneNode, remove it from its parent SceneNode and call Dispose instead of setting IsVisible to false.
Public propertyParentDXScene Gets the parent DXScene.
Public propertyParentNode Gets or sets the parent SceneNode
Public propertyTag Tag can contain any arbitrary data.
Public propertyTransform Gets or sets the Transformation.
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Methods
 NameDescription
Public methodAddChild Adds the specified SceneNode to the ChildNodes collection of this SceneNode
Public methodAddChildren Adds child SceneNodes to the ChildNodes collection of this SceneNode
Public methodCleanAllDirtyFlags Clean dirty flags on this and child nodes. This is called after a frame was rendered.
Public methodClearChildNodes Removes all SceneNodes from the ChildNodes collection
Public methodFindNode Searches the ChildNodes recursively and returns the SceneNode with the specified name if found; else returns null.
Public methodForEachChildNodeT ForEachChildNode calls the childNodeFoundAction for each SceneNode of type T that is find in the hierarchy of the child SceneNodes starting at this SceneNode's ChildNodes.
Public methodGetAllDescendantNodes Returns an enumerable of this SceneNode and all SceneNode that are children of this SceneNode and its children - gets all SceneNode in the hierarchy tree below this SceneNode as flat IEnumerable.
Public methodGetChildNode Returns a child SceneNode object with the specified index.
Public methodGetDetailsText Returns string that tells details about this SceneNode
Public methodStatic memberGetSceneNodesBounds Returns the Bounds of the scene nodes that are children of the rootSceneNode. The sceneNodesFilter Func can be used to choose which scene nodes to use.
Public methodGetTotalTransformMatrix Returns a SharpDX.Matrix that represents the transformation from the Root SceneNode to this SceneNode. The includeThisTransform parameter specifies if transformation from this SceneNode is also included in the returned matrix.
Public methodInsertChild Inserts the specified SceneNode to the ChildNodes collection to the specified index
Public methodLock Locks the SceneNode which make it unchangable. Note that Lock can be called only when the DirtyFlags are Unchanged - there are no changes made on this SceneNode.
Public methodLockChildNodes LockChildNodes method locks ChildNodes and prevents changing them. After locking SceneNodes they cannot be unlocked again. This is used mostly by SceneNodes that does not contain any ChildNodes - for example for MeshObjectNode.
Public methodNotifyAllChildSceneNodesChange Add the changeType to all child SceneNodes. This does not change this SceneNode's dirty flags.
Public methodNotifyAllParentSceneNodesChange Add the changeType to all parent SceneNodes. This does not change this SceneNode's dirty flags.
Public methodNotifySceneNodeChange Add the SceneNodeDirtyFlags to this SceneNode's DirtyFlags flags. This methods also calls NotifyChange on parent DXScene.
Public methodRemoveChild Removes the specified SceneNode from the ChildNodes collection
Public methodRemoveChildAt Removes the SceneNode at the specified index from the ChildNodes collection
Public methodReplaceChild(Int32, SceneNode) Replaces the SceneNode at the specified index with the newChildNode
Public methodReplaceChild(SceneNode, SceneNode) Replaces the currentChildNode with the newChildNode
Public methodToString Returns a String that represents this instance.
(Overrides ObjectToString)
Public methodUnLock Unlocks the SceneNode.
Public methodUpdate Update method is called on each update phase (before render phase)
Public methodUpdateBounds Updates the bounds of this SceneNode if the dirty flags indicates that the bounds could be changed of if the forceUpdate parameter is set to true
Public methodUpdateWorldBoundingBox Updates the worldBounds field based on the current worldMatrix and Bounds.
Public methodUpdateWorldMatrix UpdateWorldMatrix checks if dirty flags indicate that the final world matrix for this SceneNode needs to be recalculated.
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Events
 NameDescription
Public eventChildNodesChanged Occurs when list of ChildNode is changed.
Public eventParentNodeChanged Occurs when ParentNode is changed. Occurs also when this SceneNode is added to the SceneNodes tree for the first time or when it is removed from the SceneNodes tree (ParentNode is set to null). This event does not occur when this SceneNode is disposed.
Public eventResourcesInitialized ResourcesInitialized event is fried after the OnInitializeResources was called and the DirectX resources were created.
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Fields
 NameDescription
Public fieldIsWorldMatrixIdentity True if final world matrix (WorldMatrix) is identity. This field can be checked to skip multipliyng with WorldMatrix.
Public fieldWorldBounds Bounds with BoundingBox in world coordinates (transformed by parents transformations and transformation on this SceneNode).
Public fieldWorldMatrix When IsWorldMatrixIdentity is false this field defines the final world matrix that is calculated from the parent's world matrix and this node's transformation matrix. When IsWorldMatrixIdentity is true this field has an invalid value (is not set to Identity matrix for performance reasons).
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Extension Methods
 NameDescription
Public Extension MethodGetGeometryModel3D Returns a WPF's GeometryModel3D that was used to create the specified sceneNode. If the sceneNode does not define a GeometryModel3D object, then null is returned.
(Defined by Extensions)
Public Extension MethodGetModel3D Returns a WPF's Model3D that was used to create the specified sceneNode. If the sceneNode does not define a Model3D object, then null is returned.
(Defined by Extensions)
Public Extension MethodGetModelVisual3D Returns a WPF's ModelVisual3D that was used to create the specified sceneNode or any parent SceneNode (in case searchParentSceneNodes is true). If a SceneNode that defines a ModelVisual3D is not found, then null is returned.
(Defined by Extensions)
Public Extension MethodGetVisual3D Returns a WPF's Visual3D that was used to create the specified sceneNode or any parent SceneNode (in case searchParentSceneNodes is true). If a SceneNode that defines a Visual3D is not found, then null is returned.
(Defined by Extensions)
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