VfxRenderer

Remarks

Part of the compiled graph, and it declares the attributes it reads the same way an operation does — so a velocity-aligned billboard is what makes a graph allocate velocity even if nothing in the simulation would have.

Fields and properties (11)

• public VfxRendererKind Kind

  What each particle is drawn as.

• public VfxBillboardAlignment Alignment

  Which way it faces, for a billboard.

• public VfxSortMode Sort

  What order they are drawn in.

• public Vector3 Axis

  The axis for FixedAxis.

• public float Stretch

  For Velocity: how much a metre per second of speed lengthens the quad, over and above its size.

• public int RibbonSlot

  For Ribbon: which custom attribute holds the strip a particle belongs to. Particles sharing a value are one ribbon, ordered by age.

• public float Intensity

  For Light: how bright one particle is, multiplied by the alpha of its colour. Alpha rather than a second attribute, so that a colour-over-life fade dims the light it is fading — which is what an author who wrote that fade meant.

• public float Range

  For Light: how far a particle of unit size reaches, in metres. Scaled by size, so a size-over-life curve shrinks the pool of light with the spark.

• public static VfxRenderer Billboard

  A camera-facing quad, unsorted. What an additive effect wants.

• public static VfxRenderer SortedBillboard

  A camera-facing quad, sorted back to front. What an alpha-blended effect wants.

• public VfxAttribute Reads

  The attributes it needs in order to draw anything.

Methods (5)

• public VfxRenderer(VfxRendererKind Kind = Billboard, VfxBillboardAlignment Alignment = Camera, VfxSortMode Sort = None, Vector3 Axis = default(Vector3), float Stretch = 0, int RibbonSlot = 0, float Intensity = 1, float Range = 4)

  How a system's particles are turned into geometry.

• public static VfxRenderer Streak(float stretch = 0.1)

  A quad stretched along its velocity.

• public static VfxRenderer Instanced(VfxBillboardAlignment alignment = Camera, Vector3 axis = default(Vector3))

  An instance of a mesh per particle, oriented by its alignment.

• public static VfxRenderer Ribbon(int slot)

  A strip through the particles that share a value in one custom attribute.

• public static VfxRenderer Light(float intensity = 1, float range = 4)

  A point light per particle, coloured and ranged by the particle.

Used by (17)

• ParticleLightTestsVixen.Rendering.Tests
• ParticleLightsVixen.Rendering
• ParticleRenderFeatureVixen.Rendering
• ParticleRenderFeatureTestsVixen.Rendering.Tests
• ParticleSpriteDeviceTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• SourceVixen.Rendering.Tests
• VfxCompiledGraphVixen.Vfx
• VfxEffectContentTestsVixen.Rendering.Tests
• VfxGeometryBuilderVixen.Vfx
• VfxGeometryTestsVixen.Vfx.Tests
• VfxRendererRowVixen.Rendering
• VfxRibbonTestsVixen.Vfx.Tests
• BillboardOutputNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• EffectNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• LightOutputNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• VfxGraphBuilderVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• VfxGraphCompilerTestsVixen.Editor.VfxGraph.Tests