3DScheme & 3DScheme Pro
Version 2.0

The Solid Modeler: Rendering

Backgrounds

• create a background
• get the properties of a background
• set a property of a background
• get a background's type
• get the list of available background types
• get/set the current rendering background

Environment Maps

• create an environment map from data
• create an environment map from an LWI-format file
• create an environment map by rendering
• create a procedurally-defined environment map

Foregrounds

• create a foreground
• get the properties of a foreground
• set a property of a foreground
• get the type of a foreground
• get a list of available foreground types
• get/set the current render foreground

Image Output

• get/set the render mode
• get a list of valid render modes
• render the contents of a view to a file in Interleaf/Portable Any Map/PostScript/TrueVision TARGA/Windows Enhanced Metafile format
• print a rendered image

Lights

• create a light of a specified type
• get the type of a light
• get a list of the available light types
• get the properties of a light
• get the list of active lights
• determine if a light is active
• add/remove lights from the list of active lights
• create/delete a shadow map for a light and list of entities

Materials

• create a material
• get/set the type of a material's color/displacement/reflectance/transparency component
• get a list of the available types of a material's color/displacement/reflectance/transparency component
• set the color/displacement/reflectance/transparency type of the default material
• get/set the material associated with a geometric entity
• get/set the color of the material associated with a geometric entity
• get/set the reflectance properties of the material associated with a geometric entity
• get/set the file name of the texture in the material asociated with a geometric entity
• get/set the transparency properties of the material associated with a geometric entity
• get the properties of a material's color/displacement/reflectance/transparency component
• set a property of a material's color/displacement/reflectance/transparency component
• get the enabled/disabled status of a material's displacement/transparency component
• enable/disable a material's displacement/transparency component

Rendering Control

• mark an entity as to whether it should be rendered
• render one or more entities
• get/set the render mode
• get a list of valid render modes
• render the contents of a view to a file in Interleaf/Window Enhanced Metafile/Portable Any Map/PostScript/TrueVision TARGA format
• print a rendered image
• get/set the backface culling mode used by the OpenGL renderer
• get/set the fill style used by the OpenGL renderer
• get/set the value of a rendering control variable
• get the list of valid rendering control variables
• get/set the active rendering environment map
• rebuild each element in a view's display list

Texture Spaces

• create a texture space of a specified type
• get the type of a texture space
• get the list of valid texture space types
• get/set the texture space associated with an entity
• get the properties of a texture space
• set a property of a texture space

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