Scenes

In Mach::GL, the best way to handle rendering objects and grouping these objects is with a scene. Scenes are created by creating a MACH_SCENE object - this object is located in the MachGL::Scene namespace.

A scene takes in the parameters of a Projection Matrix and a Camera object.

Scene::MACH_SCENE scene = Scene::Scene::createScene(projectionMatrix, camera);

Any objects that are to be rendered in the scene need to be pushed to the scene by the scene->pushObject(object) function. If there are many objects that share the same shader then it is recommended to use Groups instead to reduce the number of shader enable/disable functions to the graphics API.

Groups have to be pushed to the scene in a similar way as objects by calling the group->pushObject(object) function. However, objects that are in a group should not also be pushed to a scene separately.

Skyboxes can easily be added to a scene by calling the scene->setSkybox(skybox) function during the initialization of the scene.