iContentChunk

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Interface iContentChunk

Description

Encapsulates a block of content markup that can be saved and loaded to and from persistent store, and instanced for PathEngine's content processing functionality.

Refer to 2D Content Processing for information about PathEngine's content processing functionality.

This interface is defined in SDKRoot/include/i_pathengine.h.

Construction and Deletion

iContentChunk objects can be constructed with iPathEngine::newContentChunk(), or loaded with iPathEngine::loadContentChunk().
iContentChunk objects can be deleted explicitly by calling delete on the pointer or by calling the object's destroy() function. All iContentChunk objects are deleted by a call to iPathEngine::deleteAllObjects().
A pointer to an iContentChunk object must not be used after the object has been deleted.

Any content chunks not deleted get cleaned up automatically when PathEngine is shut down.

Methods:

deleteAllInstances		Deletes all objects previously created by iContentChunk::instantiate() or iContentChunk::instantiate_FloatRotateAndScale().
hasAnchorsAndShapesComponent		Used to query whether or not a content chunk has an anchors and shapes component.
hasGroundComponent		Used to query whether or not a content chunk has a ground component.
instantiate		Used to place instances of content chunk geometry into the world. The instance objects generated can then be used to drive PathEngine's content processing functionality, and to place anchors and shapes against the resulting ground mesh.
instantiate_FloatRotateAndScale		Used to place instances of content chunk geometry into the world. The instance objects generated can then be used to drive PathEngine's content processing functionality, and to place anchors and shapes against the resulting ground mesh.
numberOfConnectingEdges		Used to query the number of connecting edges marked up in a chunk's ground geometry.
preValidate		Validates the content chunk in advance for placement by iContentChunk::instantiate().
save		Saves the content chunk to persistent storage.

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