blender/source/gameengine/SceneGraph/SG_ParentRelation.h
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/**
* @mainpage SG_ParentRelation
* @section
*
* This is an abstract interface class to the Scene Graph library.
* It allows you to specify how child nodes react to parent nodes.
* Normally a child will use it's parent's transforms to compute
* it's own global transforms. How this is performed depends on
* the type of relation. For example if the parent is a vertex
* parent to this child then the child should not inherit any
* rotation information from the parent. Or if the parent is a
* 'slow parent' to this child then the child should react
* slowly to changes in the parent's position. The exact relation
* is left for you to implement by filling out this interface
* with concrete examples.
*
* There is exactly one SG_ParentRelation per SG_Node. Subclasses
* should not be value types and should be allocated on the heap.
*
* $Id$
*
* ***** BEGIN GPL/BL DUAL LICENSE BLOCK *****
*
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*
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*
* The Original Code is Copyright (C) 2001-2002 by NaN Holding BV.
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*
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*
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*
*/
#ifndef __SG_ParentRelation_h
#define __SG_ParentRelation_h
class SG_Spatial;
class SG_ParentRelation {
public :
/**
* Update the childs local and global coordinates
* based upon the parents global coordinates.
* You must also handle the case when this node has no
* parent (parent == NULL). Usually you should just
* copy the local coordinates of the child to the
* world coordinates.
*/
virtual
void
UpdateChildCoordinates(
SG_Spatial * child,
const SG_Spatial * parent
) = 0;
virtual
~SG_ParentRelation(
){
};
/**
* You must provide a way of duplicating an
* instance of an SG_ParentRelation. This should
* return a pointer to a new duplicate allocated
* on the heap. Responsibilty for deleting the
* duplicate resides with the caller of this method.
*/
virtual
SG_ParentRelation *
NewCopy(
) = 0;
protected :
/**
* Protected constructors
* this class is not meant to be instantiated.
*/
SG_ParentRelation(
) {
};
/**
* Copy construction should not be implemented
*/
SG_ParentRelation(
const SG_ParentRelation &
);
};
#endif