C# Class Axiom.Core.Entity

Attaches another object to a certain bone of the skeleton which this entity uses.

This method can be used to attach another object to an animated part of this entity, by attaching it to a bone in the skeleton (with an offset if required). As this entity is animated, the attached object will move relative to the bone to which it is attached.

Attaches another object to a certain bone of the skeleton which this entity uses.

Attaches another object to a certain bone of the skeleton which this entity uses.

Copies a subset of animation states from source to target.

This routine assume target is a subset of source, it will copy all animation state of the target with the settings from source.

Detaches an object by reference.

Use this method to destroy a MovableObject which is attached to a bone of belonging this entity. But sometimes the object may be not in the child object list because it is a lod entity, this method can safely detect and ignore in this case and won't raise an exception.

For entities based on animated meshes, gets the AnimationState object for a single animation.

You animate an entity by updating the animation state objects. Each of these represents the current state of each animation available to the entity. The AnimationState objects are initialized from the Mesh object.

For entities based on animated meshes, gets the AnimationState object for a single animation.

You animate an entity by updating the animation state objects. Each of these represents the current state of each animation available to the entity. The AnimationState objects are initialized from the Mesh object.

Gets the SubEntity at the specified index.

Mark just this vertex data as animated.

Sets a level-of-detail bias for the material detail of this entity.

Level of detail reduction is normally applied automatically based on the Material settings. However, it is possible to influence this behavior for this entity by adjusting the LOD bias. This 'nudges' the material level of detail used for this entity up or down depending on your requirements. You might want to use this if there was a particularly important entity in your scene which you wanted to detail better than the others, such as a player model.

There are three parameters to this method; the first is a factor to apply; it defaults to 1.0 (no change), by increasing this to say 2.0, this model would take twice as long to reduce in detail, whilst at 0.5 this entity would use lower detail versions twice as quickly. The other 2 parameters are hard limits which let you set the maximum and minimum level-of-detail version to use, after all other calculations have been made. This lets you say that this entity should never be simplified, or that it can only use LODs below a certain level even when right next to the camera.

Sets a level-of-detail bias on this entity.

Level of detail reduction is normally applied automatically based on the Mesh settings. However, it is possible to influence this behavior for this entity by adjusting the LOD bias. This 'nudges' the level of detail used for this entity up or down depending on your requirements. You might want to use this if there was a particularly important entity in your scene which you wanted to detail better than the others, such as a player model.

There are three parameters to this method; the first is a factor to apply; it defaults to 1.0 (no change), by increasing this to say 2.0, this model would take twice as long to reduce in detail, whilst at 0.5 this entity would use lower detail versions twice as quickly. The other 2 parameters are hard limits which let you set the maximum and minimum level-of-detail version to use, after all other calculations have been made. This lets you say that this entity should never be simplified, or that it can only use LODs below a certain level even when right next to the camera.

Perform all the updates required for an animated entity.

Internal implementation of attaching a 'child' object to this entity and assign the parent node to the child entity.

Used to build a list of sub-entities from the meshes located in the mesh.

Protected method to cache bone matrices from a skeleton.

Internal method to clone vertex data definitions but to remove blend buffers.

Internal implementation of detaching a 'child' object from this entity and clearing the assignment of the parent node to the child entity.

Internal method for extracting metadata out of source vertex data for fast assignment of temporary buffers later.

Internal method - given vertex data which could be from the Mesh or any SubMesh, finds the temporary blend copy.

Internal method - given vertex data which could be from the Mesh or any SubMesh, finds the corresponding SubEntity.

Mark all vertex data as so far unanimated.

Internal method for preparing this Entity for use in animation.

Trigger an evaluation of whether hardware skinning is supported for this entity.

Internal method to restore original vertex data where we didn't perform any vertex animation this frame.

Apply vertex animation

Gets a reference to the entity representing the numbered manual level of detail.

The zero-based index never includes the original entity, unlike .

Initialize the hardware animation elements for given vertex data

Internal method called to notify the object that it has been attached to a node.