SoSFImage3 Class Reference
Field Classes

The SoSFImage3 class is used to store 3D (volume) images. More...

`#include <Inventor/fields/SoSFImage3.h>`

Inheritance diagram for SoSFImage3:

## Public Member Functions

virtual SoType | getTypeId (void) const
virtual void | copyFrom (const SoField &field)
const SoSFImage3 & | operator= (const SoSFImage3 &field)
virtual SbBool | isSame (const SoField &field) const
const unsigned char * | getValue (SbVec3s &size, int &nc) const
void | setValue (const SbVec3s &size, const int nc, const unsigned char *bytes)
int | operator== (const SoSFImage3 &field) const
int | operator!= (const SoSFImage3 &field) const
unsigned char * | startEditing (SbVec3s &size, int &nc)
void | finishEditing (void)
Public Member Functions inherited from SoSField
virtual | ~SoSField ()
Public Member Functions inherited from SoField
virtual | ~SoField ()
void | setIgnored (SbBool ignore)
SbBool | isIgnored (void) const
void | setDefault (SbBool defaultVal)
SbBool | isDefault (void) const
SbBool | isOfType (const SoType type) const
void | enableConnection (SbBool flag)
SbBool | isConnectionEnabled (void) const
SbBool | connectFrom (SoEngineOutput *master, SbBool notnotify=FALSE, SbBool append=FALSE)
SbBool | appendConnection (SoEngineOutput *master, SbBool notnotify=FALSE)
void | disconnect (SoEngineOutput *engineoutput)
SbBool | isConnectedFromEngine (void) const
SbBool | getConnectedEngine (SoEngineOutput *&master) const
SbBool | connectFrom (SoField *master, SbBool notnotify=FALSE, SbBool append=FALSE)
SbBool | appendConnection (SoField *master, SbBool notnotify=FALSE)
void | disconnect (SoField *field)
SbBool | isConnectedFromField (void) const
SbBool | getConnectedField (SoField *&master) const
int | getNumConnections (void) const
int | getForwardConnections (SoFieldList &slavelist) const
int | getConnections (SoFieldList &masterlist) const
void | disconnect (void)
SbBool | isConnected (void) const
void | setContainer (SoFieldContainer *cont)
SoFieldContainer * | getContainer (void) const
SbBool | set (const char *valuestring)
void | get (SbString &valuestring)
SbBool | shouldWrite (void) const
virtual void | touch (void)
virtual void | startNotify (void)
virtual void | notify (SoNotList *nlist)
SbBool | enableNotify (SbBool on)
SbBool | isNotifyEnabled (void) const
void | addAuditor (void *f, SoNotRec::Type type)
void | removeAuditor (void *f, SoNotRec::Type type)
int | operator== (const SoField &f) const
int | operator!= (const SoField &f) const
virtual void | connectionStatusChanged (int numconnections)
SbBool | isReadOnly (void) const
virtual void | fixCopy (SbBool copyconnections)
virtual SbBool | referencesCopy (void) const
void | copyConnection (const SoField *fromfield)
virtual SbBool | read (SoInput *input, const SbName &name)
virtual void | write (SoOutput *out, const SbName &name) const
virtual void | countWriteRefs (SoOutput *out) const
void | setFieldType (int type)
int | getFieldType (void) const
SbBool | getDirty (void) const
void | setDirty (SbBool dirty)
void | evaluate (void) const

## Static Public Member Functions

static void * | createInstance (void)
static SoType | getClassTypeId (void)
static void | initClass (void)
Static Public Member Functions inherited from SoSField
static void | initClass (void)
static SoType | getClassTypeId (void)
static void | atexit_cleanup (void)
Static Public Member Functions inherited from SoField
static void | initClass (void)
static void | initClasses (void)
static void | cleanupClass (void)
static SoType | getClassTypeId (void)

## Additional Inherited Members

Public Types inherited from SoField
enum | FieldType { NORMAL_FIELD = 0 , EVENTIN_FIELD , EVENTOUT_FIELD , EXPOSED_FIELD }
Protected Member Functions inherited from SoSField
| SoSField (void)
Protected Member Functions inherited from SoField
| SoField (void)
void | valueChanged (SbBool resetdefault=TRUE)
virtual void | evaluateConnection (void) const
virtual SbBool | readConnection (SoInput *in)
virtual void | writeConnection (SoOutput *out) const
SbBool | isDestructing (void) const
virtual SoNotRec | createNotRec (SoBase *cont)

## Detailed Description

The SoSFImage3 class is used to store 3D (volume) images.

The SoSFImage3 class provides storage for inline 3D image maps. 3D images in Coin are mainly used for 3D texture mapping support.

SoSFImage3 instances can be exported and imported as any other field class in Coin.

The components of an SoSFImage3 is: its image dimensions (width, height and depth), the number of bytes used for describing each pixel (number of components) and an associated pixel buffer. The size of the pixel buffer will be width*height*depth*components.

For texture maps, the components / bytes-per-pixel setting translates as follows: use 1 for a grayscale imagemap, 2 for grayscale + opacity (i.e. alpha value), 3 for RGB (1 byte each for red, green and blue) and 4 components means 3 bytes for RGB + 1 byte opacity value (aka RGBA).

This field is serializable into the Inventor / Coin file format in the following manner:

FIELDNAME X Y Z C 0xRRGGBBAA 0xRRGGBBAA ...

"X", "Y" and "Z" are the image dimensions along the given axes, "C" is the number of components in the image. The number of 0xRRGGBBAA pixel color specifications needs to equal the exact number of pixels, which is X*Y*Z. Each part of the pixel color value is in the range 0x00 to 0xff (hexadecimal, 0 to 255 decimal).

For 3-component images, the pixel-format is 0xXXRRGGBB, where the byte in the pixel color value marked as "XX" is ignored and can be left out.

For 2-component images, the pixel-format is 0xXXXXGGAA, where the bytes in the pixel color values marked as "XX" are ignored and can be left out. "GG" is the part which gives a grayscale value and "AA" is for opacity.

For 1-component images, the pixel-format is 0xXXXXXXGG, where the bytes in the pixel color values marked as "XX" are ignored and can be left out.

The pixels are read as being ordered in rows along X (width), columns along Y (height, bottom to top) and Z "planes" (depth, front to back).

Here's a simple example of the file format serialization, for a 2x2x2 RGB-image inside an SoTexture3 node:

Texture3 {
images 2 2 2 3
0x000000 0x00ff00
0xff0000 0xffff00
0x000000 0x0000ff
0x00ff00 0x00ffff
}

The image above is colored black+green on the first line and red+yellow on the second line in the first Z plane. The second Z plane is colored black+blue on the first line and green+cyan on the second line.

Be aware that this class is an extension for Coin, and it is not available in the original SGI Open Inventor v2.1 API.

See also
  SoTexture3, SoSFImage

Since
  Coin 2.0
  TGS Inventor 2.6

## Member Function Documentation

## createInstance()

void * SoSFImage3::createInstance | ( | void |  | ) |

static

This API member is considered internal to the library, as it is not likely to be of interest to the application programmer.
Creates a new instance of the class type corresponding to the SoType object.

## getClassTypeId()

SoType SoSFImage3::getClassTypeId | ( | void |  | ) |

static

This static method returns the SoType object associated with objects of this class.

## getTypeId()

SoType SoSFImage3::getTypeId | ( | void |  | ) | const

virtual

Returns the type identification of an object derived from a class inheriting SoField. This is used for runtime type checking and "downward" casting.

Implements SoField.

## copyFrom()

void SoSFImage3::copyFrom | ( | const SoField & | f | ) |

virtual

Copy value(s) from f into this field. f must be of the same type as this field.

Implements SoField.

## isSame()

SbBool SoSFImage3::isSame | ( | const SoField & | f | ) | const

virtual

Check for equal type and value(s).

Implements SoField.

## initClass()

void SoSFImage3::initClass | ( | void |  | ) |

static

Internal method called upon initialization of the library (from SoDB::init()) to set up the type system.

## getValue()

const unsigned char * SoSFImage3::getValue | ( | SbVec3s & | size,
|  | int & | nc ) const

Return pixel buffer, set size to contain the image dimensions and nc to the number of components in the image.

## setValue()

void SoSFImage3::setValue | ( | const SbVec3s & | size,
|  | const int | nc,
|  | const unsigned char * | bytes )

Initialize this field to size and nc.

If bytes is not `NULL`, the image data is copied from bytes into this field. If bytes is `NULL`, the image data is cleared by setting all bytes to 0 (note that the behavior on passing a `NULL` pointer is specific for Coin, Open Inventor will crash if you try it).

## operator==()

int SoSFImage3::operator== | ( | const SoSFImage3 & | field | ) | const

Compare image of field with the image in this field and return `TRUE` if they are equal.

## operator!=()

int SoSFImage3::operator!= | ( | const SoSFImage3 & | field | ) | const

inline

Compare image of field with the image in this field and return `FALSE` if they are equal.

## startEditing()

unsigned char * SoSFImage3::startEditing | ( | SbVec3s & | size,
|  | int & | nc )

Return pixel buffer, set size to contain the image dimensions and nc to the number of components in the image.

The field's container will not be notified about the changes until you call finishEditing().

## finishEditing()

void SoSFImage3::finishEditing | ( | void |  | ) |

Notify the field's auditors that the image data have been modified.

The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

- SoSFImage3.h
- SoSFImage3.cpp