Unigine::NodeReference Class

A node reference is a node that refers to an external .node file on the disk, which is obtained by exporting a node from the world.

The .node file usually contains a pre-fabricated node (or a hierarchy of nodes) with all the materials and properties libraries that are required for its rendering. All changes that are made for the node reference via UnigineEditor are saved into this file.

The node reference should be used instead of the node if there a lot of identical objects repeated in the world: it will enable to avoid manual editing each object if you need to make the same changes in all of these objects.

Unlike regular nodes, reference nodes are loaded into the world faster because of the internal cache usage.

See Also

NodeReference Class

Members

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static NodeReferencePtr create(const char * name)

Constructor. Creates a new object that references a node from a given file.

Arguments

• const char * name - Path to a *.node file.

Ptr<NodeReference> cast(const Ptr<Node> & node)

Casts a NodeReference out of the Node instance.

Arguments

• const Ptr<Node> & node - Pointer to Node.

Return value

Pointer to NodeReference.

int setNodeName(const char * name)

Sets a reference to a new *.node file

Arguments

• const char * name - Path to a *.node file.

Return value

Returns 1 if the new reference is set successfully; otherwise, 0.

const char * getNodeName()

Returns the path to the referenced *.node file.

Return value

Path to the referenced *.node file.

Ptr<Node> getReference()

Ptr<Node> detachReference()

int type()