GetArea

This function calculates the area of an instance.
For perfomance reasons it is benefitial to call it with vertex and index array when the arrays are calculated anyway or Volume and Area are needed.

There are two ways to call GetVolume:
vertices and indices are both zero: in this case the instance will be
    recalculated when needed. It is expected the client does not
    need the arrays itself or there is no performance issue.
vertices and indices are both given: the call is placed directly after
    updateBuffer calls and no structural change to depending instances have
    been done in between. The transformationMatrix array is not needed,
    even if it is being used due to not giving any performance gain to this
    operation.

Note: internally the call does not store its results, any optimization based on known
    dependancies between instances need to be implemented on the client.
Note: in case precision is important and vertex array is 32 bit it is advised to
    set vertices and indices to 0 even if arrays are existing.

Syntax

C++ 32 bit

C++ 64 bit

C# 32 bit

C# 64 bit

public const string EngineDLL = @"engine.dll";[DllImport(EngineDLL, EntryPoint = "GetArea")]
public static extern double GetArea(Int64 owlInstance, ref float vertices, ref Int32 indices);

[DllImport(EngineDLL, EntryPoint = "GetArea")]
public static extern double GetArea(Int64 owlInstance, ref float vertices, ref Int64 indices);

[DllImport(EngineDLL, EntryPoint = "GetArea")]
public static extern double GetArea(Int64 owlInstance, ref double vertices, ref Int32 indices);

[DllImport(EngineDLL, EntryPoint = "GetArea")]
public static extern double GetArea(Int64 owlInstance, ref double vertices, ref Int64 indices);

[DllImport(EngineDLL, EntryPoint = "GetArea")]
public static extern double GetArea(Int64 owlInstance, IntPtr vertices, IntPtr indices);

Property owlInstance

Size: 64 bit / 8 byte (value)
The handle to the specific instance in the design tree. The instance handle is static within one open model but is most probably different when the same instance is opened in another model. The instance is always exactly of one unique class.

Property vertices

Size: 64 bit / 8 byte (reference)
The array of vertices, this array is allocated by the host application. Depending on SetFormat() the array exists of 32 bit (4 byte) single precision floats or 64 bit (8 byte) double precision floats. Each vertex elements exists of several elemens, i.e. X, Y, Z values, but optionally also nX, nY, nZ, texture coordinates, bitangent / binormal coordinates, colors etc. What is contained is defined by SetFormat() and can be retrieved via GetFormat(). The host application has to make sure enough memory is allocated for the vertices array.

Property indices

Size: 64 bit / 8 byte (reference)
The array of indices, this array is allocated by the host application. Depending on SetFormat() the array exists of 32 bit (4 byte) integers or 64 bit (8 byte) integeres.

Example

Here you can find code snippits that show how the API call GetArea can be used.

using Engine;

...

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    Int64   model = Engine.x86_64.CreateModel();

    if (model != 0)
    {
        //
        //  Classes
        //
        Int64   classBox = Engine.x86_64.GetClassByName(model, "Box");

        //
        //  Datatype Properties (attributes)
        //
        Int64   propertyLength = Engine.x86_64.GetPropertyByName(model, "length"),
                propertyWidth = Engine.x86_64.GetPropertyByName(model, "width"),
                propertyHeight = Engine.x86_64.GetPropertyByName(model, "height");

        //
        //  Instances (creating)
        //
        Int64   instanceBox = Engine.x86_64.CreateInstance(classBox, (string) null);

        double  length = 2.8,
                width = 1.3,
                height = 1.4;

        Engine.x86_64.SetDatatypeProperty(instanceBox, propertyLength, ref length, 1);
        Engine.x86_64.SetDatatypeProperty(instanceBox, propertyWidth, ref width, 1);
        Engine.x86_64.SetDatatypeProperty(instanceBox, propertyHeight, ref height, 1);

        //
        //  Simple use of the derived information functions
        //
        double  volume = Engine.x86_64.GetVolume(instanceBox, (IntPtr) 0, (IntPtr) 0),
                area = Engine.x86_64.GetArea(instanceBox, (IntPtr) 0, (IntPtr) 0),
                perimeter = Engine.x86_64.GetPerimeter(instanceBox);

        Int64   vertexBufferSize = 0,
                indexBufferSize = 0;
        Engine.x86_64.CalculateInstance(instanceBox, out vertexBufferSize, out indexBufferSize, (IntPtr) 0);
        if (vertexBufferSize != 0 && indexBufferSize != 0)
        {
            float[] vertexBuffer = new float[6 * vertexBufferSize];
            Engine.x86_64.UpdateInstanceVertexBuffer(instanceBox, ref vertexBuffer[0]);

            Int32[] indexBuffer = new Int32[indexBufferSize];
            Engine.x86_64.UpdateInstanceIndexBuffer(instanceBox, ref indexBuffer[0]);

            //
            //  Reuse knowledge to improve performance (in case of single precision, with less accuracy)
            //
            volume = Engine.x86_64.GetVolume(instanceBox, ref vertexBuffer[0], ref indexBuffer[0]);
            area = Engine.x86_64.GetArea(instanceBox, ref vertexBuffer[0], ref indexBuffer[0]);
        }

        //
        //  The resulting model can be viewed in 3D-Editor.exe
        //
        Engine.x86_64.SaveModel(model, "c:\\created\\myFile.bin");
        Engine.x86_64.CloseModel(model);
    }
}