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.TH "RTC_GEOMETRY_TYPE_USER" "3" "" "" "Embree Ray Tracing Kernels 4"
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.SS NAME
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\f[C]
RTC_GEOMETRY_TYPE_USER - user geometry type
\f[R]
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.SS SYNOPSIS
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\f[C]
#include <embree4/rtcore.h>

RTCGeometry geometry =
  rtcNewGeometry(device, RTC_GEOMETRY_TYPE_USER);
\f[R]
.fi
.SS DESCRIPTION
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User-defined geometries contain a number of user-defined primitives,
just like triangle meshes contain multiple triangles.
The shape of the user-defined primitives is specified through registered
callback functions, which enable extending Embree with arbitrary types
of primitives.
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User-defined geometries are created by passing
\f[C]RTC_GEOMETRY_TYPE_USER\f[R] to the \f[C]rtcNewGeometry\f[R]
function call.
One has to set the number of primitives (see
\f[C]rtcSetGeometryUserPrimitiveCount\f[R]), a user data pointer (see
\f[C]rtcSetGeometryUserData\f[R]), a bounding function closure (see
\f[C]rtcSetGeometryBoundsFunction\f[R]), as well as user-defined
intersect (see \f[C]rtcSetGeometryIntersectFunction\f[R]) and occluded
(see \f[C]rtcSetGeometryOccludedFunction\f[R]) callback functions.
The bounding function is used to query the bounds of all time steps of a
user primitive, while the intersect and occluded callback functions are
called to intersect the primitive with a ray.
The user data pointer is passed to each callback invocation and can be
used to point to the application\[cq]s representation of the user
geometry.
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The creation of a user geometry typically looks the following:
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\f[C]
RTCGeometry geometry = rtcNewGeometry(device, RTC_GEOMETRY_TYPE_USER);
rtcSetGeometryUserPrimitiveCount(geometry, numPrimitives);
rtcSetGeometryUserData(geometry, userGeometryRepresentation);
rtcSetGeometryBoundsFunction(geometry, boundsFunction);
rtcSetGeometryIntersectFunction(geometry, intersectFunction);
rtcSetGeometryOccludedFunction(geometry, occludedFunction);
\f[R]
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.PP
Please have a look at the \f[C]rtcSetGeometryBoundsFunction\f[R],
\f[C]rtcSetGeometryIntersectFunction\f[R], and
\f[C]rtcSetGeometryOccludedFunction\f[R] functions on the implementation
of the callback functions.
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Primitives of a user geometry are ignored during rendering when their
bounds are empty, thus bounds have lower>upper in at least one
dimension.
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See tutorial [User Geometry] for an example of how to use the
user-defined geometries.
.SS EXIT STATUS
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On failure \f[C]NULL\f[R] is returned and an error code is set that can
be queried using \f[C]rtcGetDeviceError\f[R].
.SS SEE ALSO
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[rtcNewGeometry], [rtcSetGeometryUserPrimitiveCount],
[rtcSetGeometryUserData], [rtcSetGeometryBoundsFunction],
[rtcSetGeometryIntersectFunction], [rtcSetGeometryOccludedFunction]