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.TH "rtcSetSharedGeometryBuffer" "3" "" "" "Embree Ray Tracing Kernels 4"
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.SS NAME
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\f[C]
rtcSetSharedGeometryBuffer - assigns a view of a shared data buffer
  to a geometry
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.SS SYNOPSIS
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\f[C]
#include <embree4/rtcore.h>

void rtcSetSharedGeometryBuffer(
  RTCGeometry geometry,
  enum RTCBufferType type,
  unsigned int slot,
  enum RTCFormat format,
  const void* ptr,
  size_t byteOffset,
  size_t byteStride,
  size_t itemCount
);
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.SS DESCRIPTION
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The \f[C]rtcSetSharedGeometryBuffer\f[R] function binds a view of a
shared user-managed data buffer (\f[C]ptr\f[R] argument) to a geometry
buffer type and slot (\f[C]type\f[R] and \f[C]slot\f[R] argument) of the
specified geometry (\f[C]geometry\f[R] argument).
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One can specify the start of the first buffer element in bytes
(\f[C]byteOffset\f[R] argument), the byte stride between individual
buffer elements (\f[C]byteStride\f[R] argument), the format of the
buffer elements (\f[C]format\f[R] argument), and the number of elements
to bind (\f[C]itemCount\f[R]).
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The start address (\f[C]byteOffset\f[R] argument) and stride
(\f[C]byteStride\f[R] argument) must be both aligned to 4 bytes;
otherwise the \f[C]rtcSetSharedGeometryBuffer\f[R] function will fail.
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The buffer data must remain valid for as long as the buffer may be used,
and the user is responsible for freeing the buffer data when no longer
required.
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Sharing buffers can significantly reduce the memory required by the
application, thus we recommend using this feature.
When enabling the \f[C]RTC_SCENE_FLAG_COMPACT\f[R] scene flag, the
spatial index structures index into the vertex buffer, resulting in even
higher memory savings.
.SS EXIT STATUS
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On failure an error code is set that can be queried using
\f[C]rtcGetDeviceError\f[R].
.SS SEE ALSO
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[rtcSetGeometryBuffer], [rtcSetNewGeometryBuffer]