3D

Contents:

• NUKE’s 3D architecture
  • Introduction
  • Core classes
  • Coordinate systems
• Writing a GeoOp
  • Base classes for GeoOps
  • Extending SourceGeo
  • Extending ModifyGeo
  • Extending GeoOp directly
  • Common parts of all GeoOps
  • GeoOp call order for rendering
  • GeoOp call order for viewing
  • Creating geometry
• Attributes
  • Attribute groups
  • Attribute types
  • Attribute contexts
  • Finding out what attributes are available
  • Getting attributes
  • Adding attributes
  • Deleting attributes
  • Standard attributes
• SourceGeo tutorial
  • Basic setup: includes and namespaces
  • Constants
  • Declarations
  • The easy bits
  • Adding some knobs
  • Generating the geometry
  • The get_geometry_hash() method
  • The complete code
• GeoReader and GeoWriter: supporting custom 3D file formats
  • Introduction
  • Mapping file types to readers and writers
  • The GeoReader base class
  • Implementing the Build and Test methods for a GeoReader
  • Implementing the geometry_engine method for a GeoReader
  • The complete my3dReader code
  • The GeoWriter base class
  • Implementing the Build method for a GeoWriter
  • Implementing the execute method for a GeoWriter
  • The complete my3dWriter code
• Manipulating data in 3D
  • Checking for 3D mode
  • Check the render pass