org.j3d.aviatrix3d.rendering
Interface CascadeRenderable

All Superinterfaces:

java.lang.Comparable, Renderable

All Known Subinterfaces:

EffectRenderable, OverrideRenderable

All Known Implementing Classes:

AmbientLight, AppearanceOverride, ClipPlane, DirectionalLight, Fog, Light, PointLight, SpotLight

public interface CascadeRenderable
extends Renderable

Abstracted renderable representation of objects that can appear at places other than leaf nodes and effect the children of the current cullable object.

State Management

Effects can be enabled. If they are enabled they effect all geometry from their parent group and down the scene graph. When it is disabled, it will have no effect. The rendering process will ignore the group.

Version:

$Revision: 2.1 $

Author:

Justin Couch

Method Summary

boolean

isEnabled() Get the current enabled state of the renderable.

Methods inherited from interface org.j3d.aviatrix3d.rendering.Renderable

equals

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Comparable

compareTo

Method Detail

isEnabled

boolean isEnabled()

Get the current enabled state of the renderable. A value of true means that this effect is current and can be used to render objects in the world.

Returns:

True if this effect is active and can effect the world