Index of Topics Explained in the Example Programs

The Tutorial and Example Programs explain many topics listed here as an index.

General

• Naming conventions
• Main include files
• Main API access point
• Interfaces and handles
• Starting and shutting down
• Error handling
• Configuration of the Iray SDK API
• Providing the rendering infrastructure
• Accessing the database
• Importing a scene file
• Rendering of a scene
• Providing the rendering infrastructure (advanced)
• Progressive rendering of a scene
• Picking
• Networking modes
• Comparison to the provided scene file main.mi
• Order of scene element creation
• Basic procedure for scene element creation
• Categorization of scene elements
• Modification of inputs of existing material instances
• Creation of new material instances
• Attaching function calls to material inputs
• Creation of triangle meshes
• Inclusion of geometry into the scene
• Manipulation of triangle meshes
• Creation of polygon meshes
• Using the tessellator
• Creation of subdivision surfaces
• Instancing of objects
• Creation of freeform surfaces
• Creation of on-demand meshes
• Running an HTTP server
• Running an RTMP server
• Definition of the interface of a user-defined class
• Implementation of a user-defined class
• Registration and usage of a user-defined class
• Implementation of a plugin
• Loading a plugin
• Implementation of an importer
• Registration of an importer
• Implementation of an exporter
• Registration of an exporter
• Implementation of an image exporter
• Usage of the PSD example exporter
• Running a Bridge server
• Using a Bridge server
• Node manager process on worker nodes
• Node manager process on client nodes
• Submitting jobs to the queue manager