Types

AccelerationRate value stored in terms of "Units-per-TimeInterval-Squared", where TimeInterval is the base Physics system update rate.

Handles an event or performs an action, without requiring any arguments.

Handles an event or performs an action, based upon one (1) argument provided (eg. new value or added item).

Handles an event or performs an action, based upon two (2) arguments provided (eg. collection and newly added item).

Handles an event or performs an action, based upon three (3) arguments provided (eg. instance, old property value, new property value).

Handles an event or performs an action, based upon four (4) arguments provided.

Handles an event or performs an action, based upon five (5) arguments provided.

The result of executing action.

Base class for all activities, which are owned tasks or instantiated steps in a workflow with duration and arguments.

Defines an instance of a discrete, movable object based on a Model.

Parameters for ParticleAffector.AffectParticles method.

Angle value expressed with units.

Supported units of Angular rate.

AngularRate value expressed with units.

Represents the Virtual World Application and all the systems and _services provided by the Visual3D Engine, Framework, and Visual Authoring Environment.

Indicates the state of the current Main Application.

Specifies the AssetLibrary instance manages by the Library static utility class corresponding to an Asset Library (or Toolbox) panel section.

Encapsulates the Status for Assets.

Contains helper methods for astronomic calculations used for Sky and Time Of Day features.

Array of values which resizes automatically up to largest index when accessing it. Used in VertexData to keep unlimited number of VertexBuffer and Frequency references.

A base class for creation waiting forms which can be used in LongOperationWaitFormController

Encapsulates a bindable value of ValueType, where changes to it trigger the "Changed" event. When using this type, it can be used as the ValueType implicitly. But when setting this value, you must set the "Val" property, which triggers "Changed" event.

Bilinear interpolator

Like BoundingBox, but 2D.

Specifies whether a property or event should be displayed in the Properties (or Object Editor) window. Allows specifying of a bool-providing property, field, or method which can be used to dynamically change (based upon object state) whether it is browsable or not.

Defines a camera - viewpoint from which the scene will be rendered. Can be bound to the position and orientation of any other camera and will update itself on it's change.

Utility base class for easily redirecting from base class from Visual3D.CategoryAttribute to Visual3D.CategoryGroupAttribute, to cause all category-based grouping of properties to show up even when the property owner is not the top-level focused object in Object Editor, by showing as a virtual property (like [PropertyGroup(IsCategory=true) does). This redirect allows easily changing this behavior back to the original one if needed, without search and replace. Derived attribute classes can set IsCategory=false to explicitly avoid this virtual property grouping of subproperties, however.

Alternative to the component model version of CategoryAttribute. Instead, please use category-specific classes derived from this one like Visual3D.PropertyCategory.BehaviorAttribute, or create a new one, after defining a string constant for the new category name on the PropertyCategoryName class.

This class is necessary so we can store the color components as floating point values in the range [0,1]. It serves as an intermediary to Color, which stores them as byte values. This doesn't allow for slow color component interpolation, because with the values always being cast back to a byte would lose any small interpolated values (i.e. 223 - .25 as a byte is 223).

Define range from two floats.

Encapsulates a Activity NameID and it's execution arguments, but does not imply a specific instance of the Activity. NOTE: This is not a real "ICommand", because it's not associated with a real Activity yet.

Enumeration providing type handles for common types for versioning-capable serialization independent of qualified type name changes.

Typed Delegate which returns a boolean result, and takes one strongly typed object argument.

Typed Delegate which returns a boolean result, and takes one strongly typed object argument.

Alternative categories include: Advanced, Asset, Component

Indicates that the initial value of a field (as inlined or set in the default constructor) will be used as the default value during persistence.

Specifies a description for a property, event, or behavior. This is an alternative to System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute which allows use of the attribute without using that namespace.

Base class for entities which are not usually visible at runtime (eg. during gameplay) but are visible during editing to allow positioning them. These can also be considered "Scripting Entities"

Base class for entities which are not usually visible at runtime (eg. during gameplay) but are visible during editing to allow positioning them. These can also be considered "Scripting Entities". This class currently inherits appearance related editable properties from ModelEntity, but will be replaced with NonVisibleEntity (which derives directly from SceneEntity instead) in the future.

Supported Units of Distance.

Distance value expressed with units.

Incapsulate draggable mark which captures input events and provide MouseDrag event in order to handle dragging using particular object movement algorithm (i.e. rotation or movement along some axis).

Current state of emission, allows to store and use separate emission states with same emitter (i.e. emission from other particles etc)

Provides extension methods for EntityBase, EntityBase, and ActorBase classes, as well as some extension methods for components/abilities that AvatarBase initializes which don't specifically depend on the AvatarBase class.

Categories and capabilities of an object for AI and other systems.

Supports a chain of cumulative boolean flags (where the result is only true IF all booleans in the chain are ALL true).

Define range from two floats.

The supported Units of Force.

FrameCount stored in terms of Frames (raw value) as an offset to the "Start FrameCount". Converts easily to other time units. For the Application "Start FrameCount" is the time when Application first Initialized.

Time Interval value in terms of Frames. Implicitly converts to/from Integer as assumed units of Frames.

Returns a value, of type TReturn, without requiring any arguments.

Returns a value, of type TReturn, based upon a single (1) argument provided (eg. key or instance).

Returns a value, of type TReturn, based upon the two (2) arguments provided (eg. dictionary and key).

Returns a value, of type TReturn, based upon the three (3) arguments provided (eg. instance, property, and default value).

Returns a value, of type TReturn, based upon the four (4) arguments provided.

Returns a value, of type TReturn, based upon the five (5) arguments provided.

Handles an event or performs an action, without requiring any arguments.

Handles an event or performs an action, based upon one (1) argument provided (eg. new value or added item).

Handles an event or performs an action, based upon two (2) arguments provided (eg. collection and newly added item).

Handles an event or performs an action, based upon three (3) arguments provided (eg. instance, old property value, new property value).

Handles an event or performs an action, based upon four (4) arguments provided.

Interface for anything in Visual3D implements the methods Activate()()()(), Deactivate()()()(), and IsActive.

Core interface for Visual3D Activities, which breath life into your Visual3D scenes and worlds.

Supports cloning, which creates a new instance of a class with the same value as an existing instance.

Component NameID encapsulation (does indexed lookup from a static string table).

Map to IEnumerableExtensions extension methods. (To avoid conflict with Linq extension method of same name.) This works because is in same namespace as IEnumerableExtensions, so wins because is "closer". Alternately, could do in a location that does not have "using System.Linq".

Implements concept of Equivalence between two separate object instances (e.g. copies of each other).

Interface for any class that must be Initialized. Note, classes that implement this must always make it safe to call Initialize()()()() repeatedly without causing issues. Also, classes must ensure that IsInitialized returns 'true' after Initialize()()()() is called.

Interface for objects that provide a "CreateInstance()" method.

Represents a type which has custom post-loading or post-cloning logic.

Notify about changing. Need for nested structures, components (not only for entities).

Encapsulates the current User Input Data and Selections.

Used as large static arrays to hold the less-used Spatial Data, to help reduce thrashing of the L2 Cache when doing Spatial work.

Base class for range definitions.

Provides data for an event, which uses data item.

Represents the method that will handle an event with one generic argument.

Allows loading transient (non-persistent) prototypes

Enum containing all the possible keyboard codes.

Specifies library path for type

Representation of a dynamic light source in the scene.

Light component for entities.

Template which holds a set of Light properties and provides factory method to create Light from them. Can be serialized.

Implements design-time mode visualization and manipulators for the light.

List of SceneObjects.

Event indicates which objects had ParentObject changed, their previous Parent.

Live List of Entities. When Entities are "Disposed", they are automatically removed.

3D Location with double precision.

Provides configurable access for writing to a log file, making assertions, and handling errors.

Defines the universal Message logging levels for Visual3D.

Arguments of DragMark.MouseDrag event.

The supported Units of Mass.

This is a class which exposes static methods for various common math functions. Currently, the methods simply wrap the methods of the System.Math class (with the exception of a few added extras). This is in case the implementation needs to be swapped out with a faster C++ implementation, if deemed that the System.Math methods are not up to far speed wise.

Encapsulates a required state of the Modifier Keys. Returns true or false.

List of all Modifier KeyCode combinations.

Use this attribute to adorn Properties which are to be associated with a named Data Tag. This is used for mapping and relating class fields/properties with other forms of data. Derives from "System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttributeAttribute".

Describes the name and handle of an command, activity, or asset.

Indicates that a property is not to be serialized. Use System.NonSerializedAttribute as also used by BinaryFormatter when specifying this for fields instead.

Indicates that type is not saved with Asset Database.

Used as NullObject for Scene, to eliminate need for "(World.Scene != null)" checks.

Used as large static arrays to hold the less-used SceneObject Data, to help reduce thrashing of the L2 Cache when doing Scene Graph work.

Generic definition for an Identifier from which an object of this type can be accessed or instanced.

Generic Store of objects accessible by an integer-based Identifier.

Indicates that the described property (or any property of the described type) is always deep cloned, even for properties of type IReferencePersisted which are shared (not deep cloned) by default.

Base class for particle affectors.

Base class of particle emitters.

Class defining particle system based special effects.

Percentage value expressed with units.

Indicates a persistable type (class, struct, delegate, or enum) or persistent member of a type (field, property, or event) and specifies how it is to be persisted in terms of versioning and member or value inclusion rules.

Indicates that a property is not to be serialized. Use System.NonSerializedAttribute as also used by BinaryFormatter when specifying this for fields instead.

Indicates that a property is not to be serialized. Use System.NonSerializedAttribute as also used by BinaryFormatter when specifying this for fields instead.

Indicates that a property is not to be serialized. Use System.NonSerializedAttribute as also used by BinaryFormatter when specifying this for fields instead.

Defines the pixel location of a point.

Defines the integer size of a rectangular or 2D region in terms of width and height in pixels.

Specifies the scheduling criticality of an Activity. Used to determine abortion of previous activities. Range: Lowest, EvenLower, Lower, Low, BelowNormal, Normal, AboveNormal, High, Higher, EvenHigher, Highest.

Uses WinForm to show a progress bar in front of the render window.

Callback delegate for progress reporting

Callback delegate for progress reporting

Specifies the name of the property to be used to access the field for increased performance.

Indicates that any instances (created using a CreateInstance() cloning method) of the component will have a null value for the described field or property. This does not impact "copy" cloning, but it does occur for derived prototypes, which must then have this value set when they become prototypes. It can be used with OwnedAttribute, PrototypeOwnedAttribute, or SharedAttribute..

Specifies Scaling based on Quality Rating.

Bias for Rating that is applied to a Hardware requirement for application/technique.

Rating that is applied to a Hardware requirement for application/technique.

Base class for range definitions.

Shows "Wait please" message for long operations.

Define range from two rotations.

Defines whether type is saved with Asset Database.

Scalar value expressed with units.

Supports a sequence of cumulative scaling (the result attained by multiplying all factors in the chain together).

Supports a sequence of cumulative scaling (the result attained by multiplying all factors in the chain together).

Represents a distinct environment (level, simulation scenario, portaled-to room) inside of a world, which disconnected from all other scenes and may have different application logic for it, beyond what is inherited from the overarching world application.

Lightweight struct who's handle uniquely associates it with a Scene.

A simple SceneObject used as parent only, and not for rendering. Similar to ObjectGroup, but simpler, and actually acts as the parent object.

Class representing general-purpose node an articulated scene graph.

Unique Identifier for an existing SceneObject. These are recycled upon Disposal of each SceneObject.

Define a point in the scene. Can be bound to any SceneObject via TrackedObject, or positioned explicitly via StaticLocation property. May have optional text label and custom coloration of lead line, point and label.

Represents the "InitialSettings" for a Scene.

Identitifies a Visual3D run-time Scheduler, that can be used for UpdatedActivity or keeping track of Time/frames. Convert this to Scheduler using the static method "Application.Scheduler.GetScheduler(schedulerId)".

Defines the relative (or normalized) X, Y position within a 2D region relative to its full size.

Summary description for Rect.

Defines the relative (or normalized) size in width and height of a rectangular region.

Indicates Selection Status of a SceneObject - Unselected, Selected, or SelectedFocus.

Base delegate with no args, returns a boolean.

Base delegate with no args.

Typed Delegate that returns the specified Return Type.

Supported Units of Speed.

Speed value expressed with units.

Standard Event Handler for Visual3D.

Delegate for methods that will be called by Script.Execute().

Typed Delegate that accepts the specified Argument Type and returns the specified Return Type.

Provides Best performance Timer for obtaining internal performance measurements with low-overhead. Contains some DEBUG-ONLY methods which compile-out for release mode.

Enumerates the most common file base name suffixes which preceed the file extension (before the last period in a file name) to identify an asset subtype and the corresponding IAssetFileLoader to use for loading it.

The supported Units of Temperature.

The supported Units of Time.

Time stored in terms of Milliseconds (raw value) as an offset to the "Start Time". Converts easily to other time units. For the Application "Start Time" is the time when Application first Initialized.

Time Interval value in terms of Milliseconds. Implicitly converts to/from Integer as assumed units of Milliseconds.

Specifies what node or coordinate system a transform is relative to.

Groups together transient non-saved objects

Encapsulates Properties for all current Standard Units of Measure.

A command which was initiated by user input or action.

A command which was initiated by user input or action.

A command which was initiated by user input or action.

A command which was initiated by user input or action.

This class is necessary so we can store the color components as floating point values in the range [0,1]. It serves as an intermediary to Color, which stores them as byte values. This doesn't allow for slow color component interpolation, because with the values always being cast back to a byte would lose any small interpolated values (i.e. 223 - .25 as a byte is 223).

Define range from two floats.

Represents a 3x3 matrix which can represent rotations around axes.

Represents the Virtual World Application and all the systems and _services provided by the Visual3D Engine, Framework, and Visual Authoring Environment.

XNA Distance Range is Canonical Distance Range (used standard XNA techniques).

XNA Integer Range is Canonical Range (used standard XNA techniques).