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PixelEffect Methods

The PixelEffect type exposes the following members.

Methods
 NameDescription
Public methodApplyRenderingItemMaterial ApplyRenderingItemMaterial method sets the EffectTechnique, MaterialDescriptorSets and StateSortValue properties on the specified renderingItem.
(Overrides EffectApplyRenderingItemMaterial(RenderingItem, Material, RenderingContext))
Public methodCleanup Cleanup method checks all memory blocks. Memory block is freed when it is empty and freeEmptyMemoryBlocks is true or when it empty for at least EngineRuntimeOptions.FramesCountToReleaseEmptyMemoryBlock frames.
(Overrides EffectCleanup(Boolean, Boolean))
Public methodStatic memberCreateNew 
Protected methodDispose
(Overrides EffectDispose(Boolean))
Public methodDisposeMaterial DisposeMaterial disposes the resources that are used by the specified material. Note that this method can be called on another thread. This happen when it is called called from destructor (finalizer).
(Overrides EffectDisposeMaterial(Material))
Public methodStatic memberGetDefault 
Public methodGetMemoryInfo GetMemoryInfo method returns a string that provides information about the memory usage of this effect.
(Overrides EffectGetMemoryInfo(Boolean))
Public methodInitializeMaterial Initializes the material with this effect. This method is called when the specified material is used for the first time. This usually assigns the buffer and an index in the buffer to the material.
(Overrides EffectInitializeMaterial(Material))
Public methodOnBeginUpdate OnBeginUpdate method needs to be implemented by the effect class. The method is called from the BeginUpdate(RenderingContext) method. It can be used to read some data from the RenderingContext (for example CurrentSwapChainImageIndex). It is used with the OnEndUpdate method to prepare all the data for the next rendered frame.
(Overrides EffectOnBeginUpdate(RenderingContext))
Public methodOnEndUpdate OnEndUpdate method needs to be implemented by the effect class. The method is called from the EndUpdate method. This method can update the material's buffers in case any of the material was changed.
(Overrides EffectOnEndUpdate)
Protected methodOnInitializeDeviceResources Initializes resources with the specified GpuDevice. This method can be override and is called from InitializeDeviceResources method.
(Overrides SceneComponentOnInitializeDeviceResources(VulkanDevice))
Public methodResetPipelines ResetPipelines is called when RenderPass or some other property of Pipeline is changed so that existing pipelines need to be recreated.
(Overrides EffectResetPipelines)
Public methodUpdateMaterial UpdateMaterial method is called when the material is changed and its data need to updated.
(Overrides EffectUpdateMaterial(Material))
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