source: OGRE/trunk/ogrenew/RenderSystems/Direct3D9/include/OgreD3D9HardwareOcclusionQuery.h @ 692

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#ifndef _D3D9HARWAREOCCLUSIONQUERY_H__
#define _D3D9HARWAREOCCLUSIONQUERY_H__

#include "OgreD3D9Prerequisites.h"
#include "OgreHardwareOcclusionQuery.h"


namespace Ogre {

        // If you use multiple rendering passes you can test only the first pass and all other passes don't have to be rendered 
        // if the first pass results has too few pixels visible.

        // Be sure to render all occluder first and whats out so the RenderQue don't switch places on 
        // the occluding objects and the tested objects because it thinks it's more effective..

        /**
        * This is a class that is the DirectX9 implementation of 
        * hardware occlusion testing.
        *
        * @author Lee Sandberg, email lee@abcmedia.se
        *
        * Updated on 12/7/2004 by Chris McGuirk
        * Updated on 4/8/2005 by Tuan Kuranes email: tuan.kuranes@free.fr
        */
        class D3D9HardwareOcclusionQuery : public HardwareOcclusionQuery
        {
                //----------------------------------------------------------------------
                // Public methods
                //--
        public:

                /**
                * Default object constructor
                * 
                */
                D3D9HardwareOcclusionQuery( IDirect3DDevice9* pD3DDevice );

                /**
                * Object destructor
                */
                ~D3D9HardwareOcclusionQuery();

                //------------------------------------------------------------------
                // Occlusion query functions (see base class documentation for this)
                //--

                void beginOcclusionQuery();     
                void endOcclusionQuery();
                bool pullOcclusionQuery( unsigned int* NumOfFragments);
                unsigned int getLastQuerysPixelcount() { return mPixelCount; }
        bool isStillOutstanding(void);

        

                //----------------------------------------------------------------------
                // private members
                //--
        private:        
                IDirect3DQuery9*        mpQuery;
                IDirect3DDevice9*   mpDevice;
        };


}


#endif