MDepthStencilState Class Reference

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Detailed Description

Container class for an acquired complete GPU depth stencil state.

MDepthStencilState wraps an acquired composite GPU depth stencil state. This depth stencil state can be used to set the current GPU depth stencil state using MStateManager::setDepthStencilState(myDepthState).

Instances of MDepthStencilState cannot be created or modified by users. You can read the descriptor for an MDepthStencilState using MDepthStencilState::desc(), but you cannot set or alter the descriptor directly.

MDepthStencilState can only be obtained via MStateManager::acquireDepthStencilState(). To use MStateManager::acquireDepthStencilState(), create and fill an MDepthStencilStateDesc instance with the requested state and pass it to MStateManager::acquireDepthStencilState() which will return the cached unique depth stencil state of that description. If the unique depth stencil state did not previously exist in the cache, it is created.

The information included in the depth stencil state includes depth buffer enable, depth buffer write enable, stencil enable, and separate stencil operations for front faces and back faces.

The advantages of using this class rather than setting depth stencil states explicitly are:

1. Since the states are cached internally, state setting is much faster than setting individual states. 2. Since state is set through the Maya viewport API, Maya can maintain accurate knowledge of the current GPU state, even in the presence of arbitrary plug-ins. This also speeds state setup by reducing redundant state setting and OGL queries. 3. The information is device aware, meaning that it will return the correct results based on the current active device. For example it will return the appropriate values for DirectX versus an OpenGL device.

Examples:

cgfxShaderNode.h.

#include <MStateManager.h>

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Public Types
enum	StencilOperation {   kKeepStencil = 1, kZeroStencil = 2, kReplaceStencil = 3, kIncrementStencilSat = 4,   kDecrementStencilSat = 5, kInvertStencil = 6, kIncrementStencil = 7, kDecrementStencil = 8 }
	Describes the choices for stencil buffer operations. More...
Public Member Functions
	~MDepthStencilState ()
	Destructor.
const MDepthStencilStateDesc &	desc (MStatus *ReturnStatus=NULL) const
	Get the depth stencil state descriptor that was used to create the state object.
Static Public Member Functions
static const char *	className ()
	Returns the name of this class.

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Member Enumeration Documentation

enum StencilOperation

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Describes the choices for stencil buffer operations.

Enumerator:

kKeepStencil	Do not update the entry in the stencil buffer. This is the default value Search for all occurrences
kZeroStencil	Set the stencil-buffer entry to 0. Search for all occurrences
kReplaceStencil	Replace the stencil-buffer entry with a reference value. Search for all occurrences
kIncrementStencilSat	Increment the stencil buffer entry, clamping to the maximum value. Search for all occurrences
kDecrementStencilSat	Decrement the stencil buffer entry, clamping to zero. Search for all occurrences
kInvertStencil	Invert the bits in the stencil-buffer entry. Search for all occurrences
kIncrementStencil	Increment the stencil buffer entry, wrapping to zero if the new value exceeds the maximum value. Search for all occurrences
kDecrementStencil	Decrement the stencil buffer entry, wrapping to the maximum value if the new value is less than zero. Search for all occurrences

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Member Function Documentation

const MDepthStencilStateDesc & desc

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MStatus *

ReturnStatus = NULL

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const

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Get the depth stencil state descriptor that was used to create the state object.

Parameters:

[out]

ReturnStatus

return status

Returns:

A reference to the depth stencil state descriptor

Status Codes:

• MS::kSuccess operation successful
• MS::kFailure operation failed

const char * className

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Returns the name of this class.

Returns:

Name of this class.