rtcAttachGeometry(3)

  NAME

    rtcAttachGeometry - attaches a geometry to the scene

  SYNOPSIS

    #include <embree4/rtcore.h>

    unsigned int rtcAttachGeometry(
      RTCScene scene,
      RTCGeometry geometry
    );

  DESCRIPTION

The rtcAttachGeometry function attaches a geometry (geometry argument) to a scene (scene argument) and assigns a geometry ID to that geometry. All geometries attached to a scene are defined to be included inside the scene. A geometry can get attached to multiple scenes. The geometry ID is unique for the scene, and is used to identify the geometry when hit by a ray during ray queries.

This function is thread-safe, thus multiple threads can attach geometries to a scene in parallel.

The geometry IDs are assigned sequentially, starting from 0, as long as no geometry got detached. If geometries got detached, the implementation will reuse IDs in an implementation dependent way. Consequently sequential assignment is no longer guaranteed, but a compact range of IDs.

These rules allow the application to manage a dynamic array to efficiently map from geometry IDs to its own geometry representation. Alternatively, the application can also use per-geometry user data to map to its geometry representation. See rtcSetGeometryUserData and rtcGetGeometryUserData for more information.

  EXIT STATUS

On failure an error code is set that can be queried using rtcGetDeviceError.

  SEE ALSO

[rtcSetGeometryUserData], [rtcGetGeometryUserData]