Class ContainerResourceInterface

Name

ContainerResource

Description

Container for a list of animations, textures, materials, renders and a model.

Methods

  • Applies a material variant to an entity hierarchy.

    Parameters

    • entity: Entity

      The entity root to which material variants will be applied.

    • Optional name: string

      The name of the variant, as queried from getMaterialVariants, if null the variant will be reset to the default.

    Returns void

    Example

    // load a glb file and instantiate an entity with a render component based on it
    app.assets.loadFromUrl("statue.glb", "container", function (err, asset) {
    const entity = asset.resource.instantiateRenderEntity({
    castShadows: true
    });
    app.root.addChild(entity);
    const materialVariants = asset.resource.getMaterialVariants();
    asset.resource.applyMaterialVariant(entity, materialVariants[0]);
  • Applies a material variant to a set of mesh instances. Compared to the applyMaterialVariant, this method allows for setting the variant on a specific set of mesh instances instead of the whole entity.

    Parameters

    • instances: MeshInstance[]

      An array of mesh instances.

    • Optional name: string

      The name of the variant, as queried by getMaterialVariants. If null, the variant will be reset to the default.

    Returns void

    Example

    // load a glb file and instantiate an entity with a render component based on it
    app.assets.loadFromUrl("statue.glb", "container", function (err, asset) {
    const entity = asset.resource.instantiateRenderEntity({
    castShadows: true
    });
    app.root.addChild(entity);
    const materialVariants = asset.resource.getMaterialVariants();
    const renders = entity.findComponents("render");
    for (let i = 0; i < renders.length; i++) {
    const renderComponent = renders[i];
    asset.resource.applyMaterialVariantInstances(renderComponent.meshInstances, materialVariants[0]);
    }
  • Instantiates an entity with a model component.

    Parameters

    • Optional options: object

      The initialization data for the model component type ModelComponent.

    Returns Entity

    A single entity with a model component. Model component internally contains a hierarchy based on GraphNode.

    Example

    // load a glb file and instantiate an entity with a model component based on it
    app.assets.loadFromUrl("statue.glb", "container", function (err, asset) {
    const entity = asset.resource.instantiateModelEntity({
    castShadows: true
    });
    app.root.addChild(entity);
    });
  • Instantiates an entity with a render component.

    Parameters

    • Optional options: object

      The initialization data for the render component type RenderComponent.

    Returns Entity

    A hierarchy of entities with render components on entities containing renderable geometry.

    Example

    // load a glb file and instantiate an entity with a render component based on it
    app.assets.loadFromUrl("statue.glb", "container", function (err, asset) {
    const entity = asset.resource.instantiateRenderEntity({
    castShadows: true
    });
    app.root.addChild(entity);

    // find all render components containing mesh instances, and change blend mode on their materials
    const renders = entity.findComponents("render");
    renders.forEach(function (render) {
    render.meshInstances.forEach(function (meshInstance) {
    meshInstance.material.blendType = pc.BLEND_MULTIPLICATIVE;
    meshInstance.material.update();
    });
    });
    });