Class TAbstractShapeNode

Warning: this symbol is deprecated: use TMaterialNode instead of TCommonSurfaceShaderNode (it has the same functionality and is standardized in X3D v4)

Find a suitable CommonSurfaceShader to be used when rendering this shape, or Nil.

Whether the shape was (potentially, at least partially) visible in the last rendering event.

Note that the same shape reference may be present multiple times within one scene. Moreover, the same scene may be present multiple times within one viewport. Moreover, multiple viewports may render the same scene. The shape is marked as "was visible" if any instance of it was visible in any viewport in any scene.

Create node fields and events.

Warning: this symbol is deprecated: create and assign texture node instance explicitly, then set Appearance.Texture

The texture of this shape. This is a shortcut for accessing "texture" field of Appearance, that is TAppearanceNode(FdAppearance.Value).FdTexture.Value, checking whether nodes are set to appropriate types along the way.

When setting this to something non-nil, we make sure to also set Appearance to something non-nil.

Warning: this symbol is deprecated: create and assign texture transformatiom node instance explicitly, then set Appearance.TextureTransform

Texture transformation of this shape. Similar to Texture, this is just a comfortable property for getting and setting the appropriate Appearance field, checking class types along the way.

Warning: this symbol is deprecated: create and assign TAppearanceNode instance explicitly, then set Appearance.Material

Get / set the material of this shape. This is a shortcut to access Appearance and then set Appearance.Material. When setting the material to something non-nil, we make sure to create Appearance node if necessary.

Warning: this symbol is deprecated: create and assign TLinePropertiesNode instance explicitly, then set Appearance.LineProperties

Line properties of this shape. This is a clean, type-safe way for accessing Appearance.lineProperties field of this shape.

Internal wrapper for property Appearance. This wrapper API may change, we advise to access simpler Appearance instead, if it is defined (TODO: for now, some field types do not have a simpler counterpart).

Internal wrapper for property Geometry. This wrapper API may change, we advise to access simpler Geometry instead, if it is defined (TODO: for now, some field types do not have a simpler counterpart).

Internal wrapper for property BboxCenter. This wrapper API may change, we advise to access simpler BboxCenter instead, if it is defined (TODO: for now, some field types do not have a simpler counterpart).

You can provide a manually-calculated bounding box of the shape here, for optimization purposes. Leave this field as empty (TBox3D.Empty) to let the engine calculate best bounding box automatically.

Manually providing the bounding box makes sense if you can do it more efficiently than the engine. E.g. if the shape vertexes are animated, then the engine would have to recalcualate the perfect bounding box every frame. It is more efficient to calculate a bounding box of all possible animation frames, and store it here.

The glTF skinned animation automatically fills this field for the affected shapes.

Note: This property is not useful if you want to know the bounding box of a shape, calculated by the engine. This property only allows to override the automatic engine calculation.

To read the calculated bounding box, load the nodes to TCastleScene. You can then use Scene.BoundingBox, Scene.LocalBoundingBox, Scene.WorldBoundingBox to know bounding box of the scene. To get bounding box of a particular shape, enumerate TCastleSceneCore.Shapes to find the correct shape (using any criteria you want – note that the same TShapeNode may be reused multiple times), and then read TShape.BoundingBox, TShape.LocalBoundingBox.

Internal wrapper for property BboxSize. This wrapper API may change, we advise to access simpler BboxSize instead, if it is defined (TODO: for now, some field types do not have a simpler counterpart).

Internal wrapper for property Shading. This wrapper API may change, we advise to access simpler Shading instead, if it is defined (TODO: for now, some field types do not have a simpler counterpart).

How to display given shape.

Internal wrapper for property Visible. This wrapper API may change, we advise to access simpler Visible instead, if it is defined (TODO: for now, some field types do not have a simpler counterpart).

Is the shape visible. Shapes that are not visible are not rendered, but otherwise are still processed (for example, hidden shapes are still used for collision detection). Toggling this is guaranteed to be ultra-fast.

Note: An alternative method to hide (and more) things in X3D is to wrap them in a TSwitchNode, and toggle TSwitchNode.WhichChoice between -1 and 0. When TSwitchNode.WhichChoice is -1, the children are not processed (not rendered, and do not collide).

Internal wrapper for property Collision. This wrapper API may change, we advise to access simpler Collision instead, if it is defined (TODO: for now, some field types do not have a simpler counterpart).

How does the given shape collide. This only matters if TCastleSceneCore.PreciseCollisions is True, otherwise the whole scene (with all shapes) collides as one big bounding box.

Warning: this symbol is deprecated: use Visible

Deprecated name for Visible.