InternalName

from panda3d.core import InternalName

class InternalName

Bases:

Bases: TypedWritableReferenceCount

Encodes a string name in a hash table, mapping it to a pointer. This is used to tokenify names so they may be used efficiently in low-level Panda structures, for instance to differentiate the multiple sets of texture coordinates that might be stored on a Geom.

InternalNames are hierarchical, with the ‘.’ used by convention as a separator character. You can construct a single InternalName as a composition of one or more other names, or by giving it a source string directly.

Inheritance diagram

append(basename: str) → InternalName: Constructs a new InternalName based on this name, with the indicated string following it. This is a cheaper way to construct a hierarchical name than InternalName::make(parent->get_name() + “.basename”).

property basename → string: Return the name represented by just this particular InternalName object, ignoring its parents names. This is everything after the rightmost dot.

findAncestor(basename: str) → int

Returns the index of the ancestor with the indicated basename, or -1 if no ancestor has that basename. Returns 0 if this name has the basename.

This index value may be passed to getAncestor() or getNetBasename() to retrieve more information about the indicated name.

getAncestor(n: int) → InternalName: Returns the ancestor with the indicated index number. 0 is this name itself, 1 is the name’s parent, 2 is the parent’s parent, and so on. If there are not enough ancestors, returns the root InternalName.

static getAspectRatio() → InternalName: Returns the standard InternalName “aspect_ratio”. This is the column header for the floating-point aspect ratio value, which is used to define non- square points. This number is the ratio x / y, where y is the point size (above).

getBasename() → str: Return the name represented by just this particular InternalName object, ignoring its parents names. This is everything after the rightmost dot.

static getBinormal() → InternalName: Returns the standard InternalName “binormal”. This is the column header for the tangent vector associated with each vertex, which is a unit vector usually perpendicular to both the normal and the tangent, and in the direction of the V texture coordinate change. It is used for deriving bump maps.

static getBinormalName(name: str) → InternalName: Returns the InternalName “binormal.name”, where name is the supplied string. This is the column header for the binormal associated with the named texture coordinate set.

static getCamera() → InternalName: Returns the standard InternalName “camera”. This is used as a keyword in the shader subsystem.

static getClassType() → TypeHandle

static getColor() → InternalName: Returns the standard InternalName “color”. This is the column header for the 4-component color value for each vertex.

static getError() → InternalName: Returns the standard InternalName “error”.

static getIndex() → InternalName: Returns the standard InternalName “index”. This is the column header for the integer vertex index. It is not used in the vertex data itself, but is used in the GeomPrimitive structure to index into the vertex data.

static getModel() → InternalName: Returns the standard InternalName “model”. This is used as a keyword in the shader subsystem.

static getMorph(column: InternalName, slider: str) → InternalName

Returns an InternalName derived from the given base column name and the given slider name, which is the column header for the offset vector that should be applied to the base column name when the named morph slider is engaged.

Each morph slider requires a set of n morph columns, one for each base column it applies to.

getName() → str: Returns the complete name represented by the InternalName and all of its parents.

getNetBasename(n: int) → str: Returns the basename of this name prefixed by the indicated number of ancestors. 0 is this name’s basename, 1 is parent.basename, 2 is grandparent.parent.basename, and so on.

static getNormal() → InternalName: Returns the standard InternalName “normal”. This is the column header for the 3-d lighting normal for each vertex.

getParent() → InternalName: Return the parent of this InternalName. All names have a parent, except the root name.

static getRoot() → InternalName: Returns the standard root InternalName. This is the root of all other InternalNames. It has no name itself, and it is the only InternalName with no parent.

static getRotate() → InternalName: Returns the standard InternalName “rotate”. This is the column header for the floating-point rotate value, which represents a number of degrees counter-clockwise to rotate each point or point sprite.

static getSize() → InternalName: Returns the standard InternalName “size”. This is the column header for the floating-point size value, which overrides the thickness parameter of the RenderModeAttrib on a per-vertex (e.g. per-point) basis.

static getTangent() → InternalName: Returns the standard InternalName “tangent”. This is the column header for the tangent vector associated with each vertex, which is a unit vector usually perpendicular to the normal and in the direction of the U texture coordinate change. It is used for deriving bump maps.

static getTangentName(name: str) → InternalName: Returns the InternalName “tangent.name”, where name is the supplied string. This is the column header for the tangent associated with the named texture coordinate set.

static getTexcoord() → InternalName: Returns the standard InternalName “texcoord”. This is the column header for the default texture coordinate set for each vertex. It is also used for identifying the default texture coordinate set in a TextureStage.

static getTexcoordName(name: str) → InternalName: Returns the InternalName “texcoord.name”, where name is the supplied string. This is the column header for the named texture coordinate set for each vertex. It is also used for identifying the named texture coordinate set in a TextureStage.

getTop() → InternalName: Returns the oldest ancestor in the InternalName’s chain, not counting the root. This will be the first name in the string, e.g. “texcoord.foo.bar” will return the InternalName “texcoord”.

static getTransformBlend() → InternalName: Returns the standard InternalName “transform_blend”. This is the column header for the integer transform_blend index, which is used to define vertex animation on the CPU by indexing to a particular vertex weighting from the TransformBlendTable.

static getTransformIndex() → InternalName: Returns the standard InternalName “transform_index”. This is the column header for the n-component transform_index value, which is used in conjuntion with “transform_weight” to define vertex animation on the graphics card. The transform_index value specifies the nth transform, by lookup in the TransformTable. The transform_index column may be omitted, in which case the nth transform is the nth entry in the table.

static getTransformWeight() → InternalName: Returns the standard InternalName “transform_weight”. This is the column header for the n-component transform_weight value, which is used in conjuntion with “transform_index” to define vertex animation on the graphics card. The transform_weight value specifies the weight of the nth transform. By convention, there are 1 fewer weight values than transforms, since the weights are assumed to sum to 1 (and the last value is therefore implicit).

static getVertex() → InternalName: Returns the standard InternalName “vertex”. This is the column header for the 3-d or 4-d vertex position information for each vertex.

static getView() → InternalName: Returns the standard InternalName “view”. This is used as a keyword in the shader subsystem.

static getWorld() → InternalName: Returns the standard InternalName “world”. This is used as a keyword in the shader subsystem.

join(sep: str) → str: Like getName(), but uses a custom separator instead of “.”.

static make(str: object) → InternalName: These versions are exposed to Python, which have additional logic to map from Python interned strings.

static make(name: str, index: int) → InternalName: Make using a string and an integer. Concatenates the two.

property name → string: Returns the complete name represented by the InternalName and all of its parents.

output(out: ostream)

property parent → InternalName: Return the parent of this InternalName. All names have a parent, except the root name.