Class TSphereNode

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Node's texCoord field, or Nil if not available. Various nodes may have different exact rules about what is allowed here, but everything allows TextureCoordinateGenerator and ProjectedTextureCoordinate instances.

This gives you more possibilities than the InternalTexCoord method (as you can assign texCoord using this), however it may be not available in all cases — for example VRML 1.0 nodes do not have texCoord field, but they may have a texture coordinate node (from the state).

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Is backface culling used. Nil if given geometry node doesn't have a field to control it.

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Some nodes are present only in specific VRML/X3D version. This functions decides it.

For example some nodes can only work in VRML < 2.0, some others only in VRML >= 2.0. There are even some pairs of nodes: for example TConeNode_1 works with VRML < 2.0, TConeNode works with VRML >= 2.0.

NodesManager will use this.

Default implementation of this function returns always True. Generally, I don't try to set this too aggresively — in other words, for all cases when it's sensible, I allow nodes to be used in every VRML/X3D version, even when official specification doesn't. This means that when reading VRML 1.0 files actually a large part of VRML 2.0 is allowed too, and also while reading VRML 2.0 many constructs from VRML 1.0 (officially no longer present in VRML 2.0) are allowed too. I'm trying to support what I call a "sum of VRML 1.0 and 2.0".

In practice I only use this function when various VRML/X3D versions specify the same node name but

• With different fields.

  For example Cone and Cylinder have slightly different fields, due to the fact that VRML 2.0 resigned from using TSFBitMask fields.

• With different behavior.

  For example definitions of Sphere for VRML 1.0 and 2.0 are practically equal. However, the behavior from where to take texture and material info is different — in VRML 1.0 we take last Texture2, Material etc. nodes, while in VRML 2.0 we look in parent Shape's "appearance" field. So once again two different Sphere classes are needed.

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Converts this node to another node class that may be better supported.

Typically, converts some complex geometry node (like Extrusion or Teapot) into more common node like IndexedFaceSet or IndexedTriangleSet. TShape class wraps this method into a more comfortable interface, that is TShape methods simply automatically convert geometry nodes to their proxy versions if needed.

In the base TAbstractGeometryNode class, returns Nil indicating that no conversion is known.

The resulting node's Name (if the result is not Nil) must be equal to our Name.

Some Proxy implementations (especially for VRML 1.0) will have to create new State (TX3DGraphTraverseState) instance along with a new geometry node. You should do this by copying the State into a new TX3DGraphTraverseState instance, and modyfying the State reference. Simply speaking, do

State := TX3DGraphTraverseState.CreateCopy(State);

You should not just modify the fields of the provided State instance. (Reasoning: some proxy methods rely on getting the original State, e.g. with original MaterialBinding, not the transformed state, to work correctly.)

You can modify State variable only when returning non-nil geometry.

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Calculate bounding box of this geometry node. They require State of this node during VRML traverse state — this is mainly for VRML 1.0 nodes, that depend on such state.

LocalBoundingBox gives a bounding box ignoring current transformation (or, equivalently, assuming like Transform = IdentityMatrix). Normal BoundingBox gives a bounding box taking current transformation into account.

Notes for descendants implementors:

The default implementations of these methods in TAbstractGeometryNode try to be smart and cover all common bases, so that you have to do as little work as possible to implement working descendant.

1. For nodes based on coordinates (when InternalCoord returns True), LocalBoundingBox and BoundingBox already have optimal and correct implementation in this class. Using Coord and CoordIndex, no other information is needed.

2. For other nodes, we first check ProxyGeometry and ProxyState. If ProxyGeometry is non-nil, we assume these came from Proxy call and we will use them to calculate bounding boxes, local and not local.

   So for nodes with Proxy overridden, you don't have to implement bounding box calculation, instead a ProxyGeometry will be created and provided here by the caller. This will work Ok if Proxy node will have bounding box calculation implemented.

   You can always override these methods, if you don't want to use proxy (for example, maybe there exists much faster method to calculate bounding box, or maybe tighter bounding box may be calculated directly).

3. For other nodes (not coordinate-based and without a proxy):

   The default implementation of LocalBoundingBox just calls BoundingBox with a specially modified State, such that Transform is identity.

   The default implementation of BoundingBox, in turn, just calls LocalBoundingBox and transforms this bounding box.

   So the default implementations call each other, and will loop infinitely... But if you override any one of them (local or not local), the other one will magically work.

   Note that the default implementation of LocalBoundingBox may be non-optimal as far as time is concerned, as we'll do useless multiplications by identity matrix. And the default implementation of BoundingBox may generate non-optimal bounding box, more direct approach (transforming each vertex) may give much tightier bounding box.

   So you only have to override one method — although if you want the best implementation, fastest and with the best tight bounding boxes, you may need to override both of them for some nodes.

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Should renderer automatically generate 3D texture coordinates, in case we will apply 3D texture on this geometry.

The generated coordinates will follow the X3D specification at "Texturing3D" component: "Texture coordinate generation for primitive objects". The 3D texture space will be mapped nicely to the shape bounding box.

Implementation in this class (TAbstractGeometryNode) returns always False. Override it for primitives that have no texture coordinates to return True.

Create node fields and events.

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Node type name in VRML/X3D, for this class. Normal VRML/X3D node classes should override this to return something non-empty, and then X3DType automatically will return the same value.

Empty for classes that don't have a hardcoded VRML/X3D node name, like a special TX3DUnknownNode. Such special classes should override then X3DType to return actual non-empty name there.

You usually should call X3DType. The only use of this method is that it works on classes (it's "class function"), without needing at actual instance.

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

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

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

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

How many "slices" to use to approximate the sphere. The sphere is rendered using polygons (triangles and quads) that approximate the sphere shape. The more slices, the more the sphere will look like a sphere. Slices divide the objects like slices of a pizza. The default value of 0 means to follow global variable DefaultTriangulationSlices.

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

How many "stacks" to use to approximate the sphere. The sphere is rendered using polygons (triangles and quads) that approximate the sphere shape. The more stacks, the more the sphere will look like a sphere. Stacks divide the objects like stacks of a tower. The default value of 0 means to follow global variable DefaultTriangulationStacks.