RenderContentSerializer

Public Class

Used to import and export custom render content such as materials, environments and textures. You must override RenderPlugIn.RenderContentSerializers() and return an array of derived RenderContentSerializer class types to add to the content browsers.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
Rhino.Render.RenderContentSerializer

Namespace: Rhino.Render

Assembly: RhinoCommon (in RhinoCommon.dll)

Syntax

public abstract class RenderContentSerializer

The RenderContentSerializer type exposes the following members.

Constructors

Name

Description

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Protected Method

RenderContentSerializer

Protected constructor to be called from derived class

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Properties

Name

Description

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Public Property

CanRead

If true then the file type can be imported and will be included in the file open box when importing the specified render content kind.

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Public Property

CanWrite

If true then the file type can be exported and will be included in the file save box when exporting the specified render content kind.

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Public Property

ContentKind

Kind of content created when importing or exporting this file type - ie, Material, Texture or Environment

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Public Property

ContentType

Obsolete.

Kind of content created when importing or exporting this file type. Obsolete - use ContentKind

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Public Property

EnglishDescription

English string describing this plug-in

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Public Property

FileExtension

File extension associated with this serialize object

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Public Property

LocalDescription

Localized plug-in description

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Methods

Name

Description

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Public Method

CanLoadMultiple

If true the plug-in is capable of loading multiple contents.

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Public Method

Equals

Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object.

(Inherited from Object.)

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Protected Method

Finalize

Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection.

(Inherited from Object.)

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Public Method

GetHashCode

Serves as the default hash function.

(Inherited from Object.)

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Public Method

GetType

Gets the Type of the current instance.

(Inherited from Object.)

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Public Method

LoadMultiple

Create any number of new render contents loaded from any number of files.

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Protected Method

MemberwiseClone

Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.

(Inherited from Object.)

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Public Method

Read

Called to when importing a file, file should be parsed and converted to a valid RenderContent object.

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Public Method

RegisterSerializer

Register the RenderContentSerializer

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Public Method

ReportContentAndFile

This is called from your implementation of LoadMultiple() to add a content and the file it was loaded from when the LoadMultipleFlags.Preload flag is NOT set. See LoadMultiple() for an explanation of this method’s use.

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Public Method

ReportDeferredContentAndFile

This is called from your implementation of LoadMultiple() to add a ‘deferred’ content and the file it will be loaded from when the LoadMultipleFlags.Preload flag is set. See LoadMultiple() for an explanation of this method’s use. \param c is the deferred content. \param wszFullPath is the full path to the file that ‘c’ will be loaded from. \param flags is reserved for future use; you should pass zero. \param pReserved is reserved for future use; you should pass nullptr. */

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Public Method

ToString

Returns a string that represents the current object.

(Inherited from Object.)

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Public Method

Write

Called to save a custom RenderContent object as an external file.

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