Material

This class represents the concept Material.

Class

class Appearance
class Material
   relation textures
      range Texture, cardinality [0, 2]
   relation color
      range Color, cardinality [0, 1]

Example

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

using Engine;

public void CreateMaterial()
{
    Int64 model = Engine.x86_64.CreateModel();

    if (model != 0)
    {
        //
        //  Classes
        //
        Int64   classColor = Engine.x86_64.GetClassByName(model, "Color"),
                classColorComponent = Engine.x86_64.GetClassByName(model, "ColorComponent"),
                classCube = Engine.x86_64.GetClassByName(model, "Cube"),
                classMaterial = Engine.x86_64.GetClassByName(model, "Material");

        //
        //  Object Properties (relations)
        //
        Int64   propertyAmbient = Engine.x86_64.GetPropertyByName(model, "ambient"),
                propertyColor = Engine.x86_64.GetPropertyByName(model, "color"),
                propertyDiffuse = Engine.x86_64.GetPropertyByName(model, "diffuse"),
                propertyEmissive = Engine.x86_64.GetPropertyByName(model, "emissive"),
                propertyMaterial = Engine.x86_64.GetPropertyByName(model, "material"),
                propertySpecular = Engine.x86_64.GetPropertyByName(model, "specular");

        //
        //  Datatype Properties (attributes)
        //
        Int64   propertyB = Engine.x86_64.GetPropertyByName(model, "B"),
                propertyG = Engine.x86_64.GetPropertyByName(model, "G"),
                propertyLength = Engine.x86_64.GetPropertyByName(model, "length"),
                propertyR = Engine.x86_64.GetPropertyByName(model, "R"),
                propertyW = Engine.x86_64.GetPropertyByName(model, "W");

        //
        //  Instances (creating)
        //
        Int64   myInstanceColor = Engine.x86_64.CreateInstance(classColor, (string) null),
                myInstanceColorComponent = Engine.x86_64.CreateInstance(classColorComponent, (string) null),
                myInstanceCube = Engine.x86_64.CreateInstance(classCube, (string) null),
                myInstanceMaterial = Engine.x86_64.CreateInstance(classMaterial, (string) null);

        Engine.x86_64.SetObjectProperty(myInstanceColor, propertyAmbient, ref myInstanceColorComponent, 1);
        Engine.x86_64.SetObjectProperty(myInstanceColor, propertyDiffuse, ref myInstanceColorComponent, 1);
        Engine.x86_64.SetObjectProperty(myInstanceColor, propertyEmissive, ref myInstanceColorComponent, 1);
        Engine.x86_64.SetObjectProperty(myInstanceColor, propertySpecular, ref myInstanceColorComponent, 1);

        double  R = 0.0, G = 1.0, B = 0.0, W = 0.5;
        Engine.x86_64.SetDatatypeProperty(myInstanceColorComponent, propertyR, ref R, 1);
        Engine.x86_64.SetDatatypeProperty(myInstanceColorComponent, propertyG, ref G, 1);
        Engine.x86_64.SetDatatypeProperty(myInstanceColorComponent, propertyB, ref B, 1);
        Engine.x86_64.SetDatatypeProperty(myInstanceColorComponent, propertyW, ref W, 1);

        double  length = 1.8;       
        Engine.x86_64.SetDatatypeProperty(myInstanceCube, propertyLength, ref length, 1);
        Engine.x86_64.SetObjectProperty(myInstanceCube, propertyMaterial, ref myInstanceMaterial, 1);

        Engine.x86_64.SetObjectProperty(myInstanceMaterial, propertyColor, ref myInstanceColor, 1);
        
        //
        //  The resulting model can be viewed in 3D-Editor.exe
        //
        Engine.x86_64.SaveModel(model, "c:\\created\\myMaterial.bin");
        Engine.x86_64.CloseModel(model);
    }
}