.\" Automatically generated by Pandoc 1.17.0.3 .\" .TH "rtcAttachGeometryByID" "3" "" "" "Embree Ray Tracing Kernels 3" .hy .SS NAME .IP .nf \f[C] rtcAttachGeometryByID\ \-\ attaches\ a\ geometry\ to\ the\ scene \ \ using\ a\ specified\ geometry\ ID \f[] .fi .SS SYNOPSIS .IP .nf \f[C] #include\ void\ rtcAttachGeometryByID( \ \ RTCScene\ scene, \ \ RTCGeometry\ geometry, \ \ unsigned\ int\ geomID ); \f[] .fi .SS DESCRIPTION .PP The \f[C]rtcAttachGeometryByID\f[] function attaches a geometry (\f[C]geometry\f[] argument) to a scene (\f[C]scene\f[] argument) and assigns a user provided geometry ID (\f[C]geomID\f[] argument) to that geometry. All geometries attached to a scene are defined to be included inside the scene. A geometry can get attached to multiple scenes. The passed user\-defined geometry ID is used to identify the geometry when hit by a ray during ray queries. Using this function, it is possible to share the same IDs to refer to geometries inside the application and Embree. .PP This function is thread\-safe, thus multiple threads can attach geometries to a scene in parallel. .PP The user\-provided geometry ID must be unused in the scene, otherwise the creation of the geometry will fail. Further, the user\-provided geometry IDs should be compact, as Embree internally creates a vector which size is equal to the largest geometry ID used. Creating very large geometry IDs for small scenes would thus cause a memory consumption and performance overhead. .SS EXIT STATUS .PP On failure an error code is set that can be queried using \f[C]rtcGetDeviceError\f[]. .SS SEE ALSO .PP [rtcAttachGeometry]