Manpages - RTCRayN.3embree3

  RTCRayN - ray packet of runtime size

  #include <embree3/rtcore_ray.h>

  struct RTCRayN;

  float& RTCRayN_org_x(RTCRayN* ray, unsigned int N, unsigned int i);
  float& RTCRayN_org_y(RTCRayN* ray, unsigned int N, unsigned int i);
  float& RTCRayN_org_z(RTCRayN* ray, unsigned int N, unsigned int i);
  float& RTCRayN_tnear(RTCRayN* ray, unsigned int N, unsigned int i);

  float& RTCRayN_dir_x(RTCRayN* ray, unsigned int N, unsigned int i);
  float& RTCRayN_dir_y(RTCRayN* ray, unsigned int N, unsigned int i);
  float& RTCRayN_dir_z(RTCRayN* ray, unsigned int N, unsigned int i);
  float& RTCRayN_time (RTCRayN* ray, unsigned int N, unsigned int i);

  float&        RTCRayN_tfar (RTCRayN* ray, unsigned int N, unsigned int i);
  unsigned int& RTCRayN_mask (RTCRayN* ray, unsigned int N, unsigned int i);
  unsigned int& RTCRayN_id   (RTCRayN* ray, unsigned int N, unsigned int i);
  unsigned int& RTCRayN_flags(RTCRayN* ray, unsigned int N, unsigned int i);

When the ray packet size is not known at compile time (e.g. when Embree returns a ray packet in the RTCFilterFuncN callback function), Embree uses the RTCRayN type for ray packets. These ray packets can only have sizes of 1, 4, 8, or 16. No other packet size will be used.

You can either implement different special code paths for each of these possible packet sizes and cast the ray to the appropriate ray packet type, or implement one general code path that uses the RTCRayN_XXX helper functions to access the ray packet components.

These helper functions get a pointer to the ray packet (ray argument), the packet size (N argument), and returns a reference to a component (e.g. x-component of origin) of the the i-th ray of the packet (i argument).

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