Pioneer3DX Properties

Indicates that this entity must be a child entity and that it adds one or more shapes to its parent rather than defining its own shapes.

Chassis physics shapes

Runtime only list of child entities so simulation engine can render and update on our behalf

To avoid contention with physics simulation which runs in a different thread than what the entity APIs might get called in, we just package up the parameters and queue CCR tasks. During the Update method we then process the queued requests

Vertex and pixel shader effect file (*.fx). If not specified, default effect is used

Bounding sphere approximating collision mesh for entity

Bounding sphere approximating collision mesh for entity

true if this VisualEntity has been successfully initialized

Simulation internal use

Left wheel child entity

Gets or sets the rotation of the entity meshes

Get the local transform the entity uses on its meshes

Scaling factor to apply to motor torque requests

Gets the joint that connects this entity to its parent. Null if either this or parent do not have physics entity.

Instance used for modifying and inspecting physics simulation behavior for this entity

This field exposes the entity position as an xna.Vector3 so that the simulation editor can access it.

True if simplified rendering (using just physics geometry) is requests

Threshold, in radians, for stopping rotation

This field exposes the entity rotation converted to Euler angles from the orientation quaternion.

The contract for a service associated with this entity.

this entity uses frustum culling on rendering affected by children in this entity's hierarchy default is true, but should be false for (special effects, terrain, invisible objs) if true, a valid bounding sphere should be present we should make this internal, since we expose the DisableViewFrustumCulling flag, and this flag is with respect to the the hierarchy which the user shouldn't be able to set however, making this internal could is a breaking change to user code, do we really want to do this -- not at the moment at least

World transform