# TransparencyAttrib

from pandac.PandaModules import TransparencyAttrib

Class : TransparencyAttrib
Description : This controls the enabling of transparency. Simply setting an alpha component to non-1 does not in itself make an object transparent; you must also enable transparency mode with a suitable TransparencyAttrib. Similarly, it is wasteful to render an object with a TransparencyAttrib in effect unless you actually want it to be at least partially transparent (and it has alpha components less than 1).

## Inheritance:

TransparencyAttrib: RenderAttrib
RenderAttrib: TypedWritableReferenceCount
TypedWritableReferenceCount: TypedWritable ReferenceCount
TypedWritable: TypedObject
TypedObject:
ReferenceCount:

## Methods of TransparencyAttrib:

getClassType
getMode
make

## Methods of RenderAttrib:

compareTo
getClassType
getNumAttribs
listAttribs
output
validateAttribs
write

## Methods of TypedWritableReferenceCount:

getClassType

## Methods of TypedWritable:

getClassType

## Methods of TypedObject:

getClassType
getType
getTypeIndex
isExactType
isOfType

## Methods of ReferenceCount:

getClassType
getRefCount
ref
testRefCountIntegrity
testRefCountNonzero
unref

## Constants in TransparencyAttrib:

MNone | (Mode)
MAlpha | (Mode)
MNotused | (Mode)
MMultisample | (Mode)
MMultisampleMask | (Mode)
MBinary | (Mode)
MDual | (Mode)

## Constants in RenderAttrib:

MNone | (PandaCompareFunc)
MNever | (PandaCompareFunc)
MLess | (PandaCompareFunc)
MEqual | (PandaCompareFunc)
MLessEqual | (PandaCompareFunc)
MGreater | (PandaCompareFunc)
MNotEqual | (PandaCompareFunc)
MGreaterEqual | (PandaCompareFunc)
MAlways | (PandaCompareFunc)
MOff | (TexGenMode)
MEyeSphereMap | (TexGenMode)
MWorldCubeMap | (TexGenMode)
MEyeCubeMap | (TexGenMode)
MWorldNormal | (TexGenMode)
MEyeNormal | (TexGenMode)
MWorldPosition | (TexGenMode)
MUnused | (TexGenMode)
MEyePosition | (TexGenMode)
MPointSprite | (TexGenMode)
MLightVector | (TexGenMode)

getClassType static TypeHandle TransparencyAttrib::get_class_type(void); Undocumented function.

getMode TransparencyAttrib::Mode TransparencyAttrib::get_mode(void) const; Description: Returns the transparency mode.

make static ConstPointerTo< RenderAttrib > TransparencyAttrib::make(TransparencyAttrib::Mode mode); Description: Constructs a new TransparencyAttrib object.

compareTo int RenderAttrib::compare_to(RenderAttrib const &other) const; Description: Provides an arbitrary ordering among all unique RenderAttribs, so we can store the essentially different ones in a big set and throw away the rest. This method is not needed outside of the RenderAttrib class because all equivalent RenderAttrib objects are guaranteed to share the same pointer; thus, a pointer comparison is always sufficient.

getClassType static TypeHandle RenderAttrib::get_class_type(void); Undocumented function.

getNumAttribs static int RenderAttrib::get_num_attribs(void); Description: Returns the total number of unique RenderAttrib objects allocated in the world. This will go up and down during normal operations.

listAttribs static void RenderAttrib::list_attribs(ostream &out); Description: Lists all of the RenderAttribs in the cache to the output stream, one per line. This can be quite a lot of output if the cache is large, so be prepared.

output virtual void RenderAttrib::output(ostream &out) const; Description:

validateAttribs static bool RenderAttrib::validate_attribs(void); Description: Ensures that the cache is still stored in sorted order. Returns true if so, false if there is a problem (which implies someone has modified one of the supposedly-const RenderAttrib objects).

write virtual void RenderAttrib::write(ostream &out, int indent_level) const; Description:

getClassType static TypeHandle TypedWritableReferenceCount::get_class_type(void); Undocumented function.

getClassType static TypeHandle TypedWritable::get_class_type(void); Undocumented function.

getClassType static TypeHandle TypedObject::get_class_type(void); Undocumented function.

getType virtual TypeHandle TypedObject::get_type(void) const = 0; Derived classes should override this function to return get_class_type().

getTypeIndex int TypedObject::get_type_index(void) const; Description: Returns the internal index number associated with this object's TypeHandle, a unique number for each different type. This is equivalent to get_type().get_index().

isExactType bool TypedObject::is_exact_type(TypeHandle handle) const; Description: Returns true if the current object is the indicated type exactly.

isOfType bool TypedObject::is_of_type(TypeHandle handle) const; Description: Returns true if the current object is or derives from the indicated type.

getClassType static TypeHandle ReferenceCount::get_class_type(void); Undocumented function.

getRefCount int ReferenceCount::get_ref_count(void) const; Description: Returns the current reference count.

ref void ReferenceCount::ref(void) const; Description: Explicitly increments the reference count. User code should avoid using ref() and unref() directly, which can result in missed reference counts. Instead, let a PointerTo object manage the reference counting automatically. This function is const, even though it changes the object, because generally fiddling with an object's reference count isn't considered part of fiddling with the object. An object might be const in other ways, but we still need to accurately count the number of references to it.

testRefCountIntegrity bool ReferenceCount::test_ref_count_integrity(void) const; Description: Does some easy checks to make sure that the reference count isn't completely bogus. Returns true if ok, false otherwise.

testRefCountNonzero bool ReferenceCount::test_ref_count_nonzero(void) const; Description: Does some easy checks to make sure that the reference count isn't zero, or completely bogus. Returns true if ok, false otherwise.

unref bool ReferenceCount::unref(void) const; Description: Explicitly decrements the reference count. Note that the object will not be implicitly deleted by unref() simply because the reference count drops to zero. (Having a member function delete itself is problematic; plus, we don't have a virtual destructor anyway.) However, see the helper function unref_delete(). User code should avoid using ref() and unref() directly, which can result in missed reference counts. Instead, let a PointerTo object manage the reference counting automatically. This function is const, even though it changes the object, because generally fiddling with an object's reference count isn't considered part of fiddling with the object. An object might be const in other ways, but we still need to accurately count the number of references to it. The return value is true if the new reference count is nonzero, false if it is zero.