RenderWare V2.1

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RwPolygon3d *

RwSetPolygonAmbient(RwPolygon3d *polygon, RwReal ka);

Description

Sets the ambient reflection coefficient of the polygon’s material.

Arguments

polygon Pointer to the polygon.

ka Ambient reflection coefficient in the range CREAL(0.0) to CREAL(1.0).

Return Value

The argument polygon if successful, and NULL otherwise.

Comments

RenderWare optimizes memory usage by sharing materials across multiple polygons. Setting a polygon material property with this function will cause the polygon to have it’s own copy of the material, not shared by any other polygons. Unless this is the desired effect, it is more memory efficient to use the corresponding material function RwSetMaterialAmbient() to change the underlying polygon material. This change will then be propagated to all polygons which use the material. The following line of code demonstrates how this is achieved:

RwSetMaterialAmbient(RwGetPolygonMaterial(polygon), ka);

See Also

RwGetPolygonAmbient()

RwSetMaterialAmbient()

RwSetPolygonDiffuse()

RwSetPolygonSpecular()

RwSetPolygonSurface()

RwSetSurfaceAmbient()