interface ITexture in Tinman.Terrain.Rendering

Base interface for texture resources for rendering.

interface	ITexture	extends	IBitsPerTexel
			INativeHandle
			IResource
		base of	ITexture2D
			ITextureCube

Attributes

BitsPerTexel

The number of bits per texture pixel.

property	BitsPerTexel { get }
type	int32
value	[>0]	The number of bits per pixel.
inherited	IBitsPerTexel.BitsPerTexel

Format

The texture format.

property	Format { get }
type	TextureFormat
value	[not-null]	The texture format.

HasAlpha

Returns if texture pixels carry transparency data.

property	HasAlpha { get }
type	bool
value		true if texture pixels can be transparent, false if all texture pixels will always be fully opaque.
inherited	IBitsPerTexel.HasAlpha

IsSrgb

The sRGB behaviour of this texture.

property	IsSrgb { get }
type	bool
value		The sRGB behaviour flag.

Remarks:

When true, the GPU is supposed to do on-the-fly sRGB decompression for the texture object (e.g. in Direct3D 10+ by using DXGI_FORMAT_B8G8R8X8_UNORM_SRGB), so that the GPU shader receives linear color values. Depending on the underlying graphics API, it may be necessary to specify this sRGB behaviour in the shader effect source code (e.g. in a Direct3D 9 '.fx' file via SRGBTexture=true;, to enable the D3DSAMP_SRGBTEXTURE sampler state).

LifecycleState

Returns the lifecycle state of this object.

property	LifecycleState { get }
type	LifecycleState
value		The lifecycle state.
inherited	ILifecycleState.LifecycleState

MemoryConsumption

Returns the estimated memory consumption of this object.

property	MemoryConsumption { get }
type	int64
value	[>=0]	The estimated memory consumption, in bytes.
inherited	IMemoryConsumption.MemoryConsumption

Mipmaps

The number of mipmap levels.

property	Mipmaps { get }
type	int32
value	[>=0]	The number of mipmap levels.

NativeHandle

Returns the raw handle value of the native resource that is contained in this object.

property	NativeHandle { get }
type	IntPtr
value		The raw handle value.
inherited	INativeHandle.NativeHandle

Remarks:

The documentation of the implementing class will contain information on how to interpret the raw handle value.

Methods

AcquireTry

Acquires a strong reference to this disposable object.

[OwnerReturn, ThreadSafe]
method	AcquireTry ()
type	IDisposable
returns			this if a new strong reference has been acquired, null if this object is already being disposed.
inherited	IDisposable.AcquireTry

Remarks:

The object will not be actually disposed by calls to Dispose when there is at least one strong reference left. Code that calls the AcquireTry method is responsible for calling the Dispose method accordingly.

This method is not intended to be used in performance-critical code. It should only be used to high-level resource management.

Dispose

Releases all resources held by this object if there are no more strong references to it, decrements the reference counter by one otherwise.

[Dispose, OwnerThis, ThreadSafe]
method	Dispose ()
inherited	IDisposable.Dispose

Remarks:

The Dispose method silently returns if the object has already been disposed.