RVertex Class Reference

#include <mesh.h>

Class Description

A RVertex is a rendered vertex. A vertex becomes a RVertex after it has been transformed. A RVertex has a position (x, y, z coordinate) that is stored in device coordinates. They are stored in the data member Pos[3]. One vertex in a Mesh can be shared between many different smoothing groups. In the 3ds Max Mesh database, the vertices are shared, however the normals are not. This is why an RVertex has a RNormal data member. For example, if you had a sphere that had the top and bottom hemispheres smoothed separately (i.e. not smoothed across the equator), then the vertices across the equator would have two RNormals for each RVertex while the other vertices would have one. There may be as many RNormals as there are smoothing groups colliding at a vertex. However, it is by far the most common case to have one, and anything other than one or two is very rare. For purposes of smoothing, as many RNormals are allocated as required and are stored in this class. RNormals are kept in this RVertex class since the RVertex is what gets rendered (lit). When you light a vertex you need to know its normal direction. Thus the RNormal(s) are stored in this class (using data member rn or *ern). All methods of this class are implemented by the system.

Note

For internal use only. Developers who need to compute face and vertex normals for a mesh should instead refer to the Advanced Topics section Computing Face and Vertex Normals.

See also

Class RNormal, Class Mesh, Class GraphicsWindow.

Inheritance diagram for RVertex:

Public Types
enum	{ MAX_NUM_NORMALS = 0xff }

Public Member Functions
	RVertex ()
	Constructor. More...
DllExport	~RVertex ()
	Destructor. More...

Public Attributes
DWORD	rFlags
	The flags contain the clip flags, the number of normals at the vertex, and the number of normals that have already been rendered. More...
int	pos [3]
	The rendered vertex position. More...
RNormal	rn
	If used, a single RNormal will be stored here. More...
RNormal *	ern
	In some cases, there may be two or more RNormals per vertex. More...

Additional Inherited Members
Static Public Member Functions inherited from MaxHeapOperators
static UtilExport void *	operator new (size_t size)
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static UtilExport void *	operator new (size_t size, const char *filename, int line)
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static UtilExport void *	operator new (size_t size, int block_type, const char *filename, int line)
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static UtilExport void *	operator new (size_t size, const std::nothrow_t &e, const char *filename, int line)
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static UtilExport void *	operator new (size_t size, unsigned long flags)
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static UtilExport void *	operator new (size_t size, const std::nothrow_t &e, unsigned long flags)
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static UtilExport void *	operator new[] (size_t size)
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static UtilExport void *	operator new[] (size_t size, const std::nothrow_t &e)
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static UtilExport void *	operator new[] (size_t size, const char *filename, int line)
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static UtilExport void *	operator new[] (size_t size, int block_type, const char *filename, int line)
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static UtilExport void *	operator new[] (size_t size, const std::nothrow_t &e, const char *filename, int line)
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static UtilExport void *	operator new[] (size_t size, unsigned long flags)
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static UtilExport void *	operator new[] (size_t size, const std::nothrow_t &e, unsigned long flags)
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static UtilExport void	operator delete (void *ptr)
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static UtilExport void	operator delete (void *ptr, const std::nothrow_t &e)
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static UtilExport void	operator delete (void *ptr, const char *filename, int line)
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static UtilExport void	operator delete (void *ptr, int block_type, const char *filename, int line)
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static UtilExport void	operator delete (void *ptr, const std::nothrow_t &e, const char *filename, int line)
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static UtilExport void	operator delete (void *ptr, unsigned long flags)
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static UtilExport void	operator delete (void *ptr, const std::nothrow_t &e, unsigned long flags)
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static UtilExport void	operator delete[] (void *ptr)
	Standard delete operator used to deallocate an array of objects If the pointer is invalid, an exception will be thrown. More...
static UtilExport void	operator delete[] (void *ptr, const std::nothrow_t &e)
	Standard delete operator used to deallocate an array of objects If the pointer is invalid, nothing will happen. More...
static UtilExport void	operator delete[] (void *ptr, const char *filename, int line)
	Delete operator used to deallocate an array of objects that takes the filename and line number where the delete was called If the pointer is invalid, an exception will be thrown. More...
static UtilExport void	operator delete[] (void *ptr, int block_type, const char *filename, int line)
	Delete operator used to deallocate an array of objects that takes the type of memory, filename and line number where the delete was called If the pointer is invalid, an exception will be thrown. More...
static UtilExport void	operator delete[] (void *ptr, const std::nothrow_t &e, const char *filename, int line)
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static UtilExport void	operator delete[] (void *ptr, unsigned long flags)
	Delete operator used to deallocate an array of objects that takes extra flags to specify special operations If the pointer is invalid, an exception will be thrown. More...
static UtilExport void	operator delete[] (void *ptr, const std::nothrow_t &e, unsigned long flags)
	Delete operator used to deallocate an array of objects that takes extra flags to specify special operations If the pointer is invalid, an exception will be thrown. More...
static UtilExport void *	operator new (size_t size, void *placement_ptr)
	Placement new operator. More...
static UtilExport void	operator delete (void *ptr, void *placement_ptr)
	Placement delete operator. More...

Member Enumeration Documentation

anonymous enum

Enumerator
MAX_NUM_NORMALS

         { 
        MAX_NUM_NORMALS  = 0xff
    };

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

RVertex ( )

inline

Constructor.

The flags are set to zero and the ern pointer is set to NULL.

{ rFlags = 0; ern = NULL; }

DllExport ~RVertex

(

)

Destructor.

Member Data Documentation

DWORD rFlags

The flags contain the clip flags, the number of normals at the vertex, and the number of normals that have already been rendered.

These are used internally. For example, the clipping flags are used to see if the RVertex can be either trivially accepted or rejected when rendering.

int pos[3]

The rendered vertex position.

RNormal rn

If used, a single RNormal will be stored here.

RNormal* ern

In some cases, there may be two or more RNormals per vertex.

If this is the case, these 'extra' RNormals are allocated and the pointer to the memory is stored here. If these are used, then data member rn is not used (rn is copied into ern[0]).