create_scene(3alleg4)

💖 create_scene — Allegro manual, section 3alleg4 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're about to allocate some 3D scene memory and it's giving iconic ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

create_scene — literally just hands you memory for a 3d scene 🎀 part of the Allegro game programming library, no big deal, just the glow-up your polygons have been waiting for 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <allegro.h>

int create_scene(int nedge, int npoly);

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea, bestie 🍓 create_scene allocates memory for a scene, and you gotta tell it upfront: nedge and npoly are your estimates of how many edges and how many polygons you're gonna render. and listen — you cannot get over the limit you specify here. that's the vibe check. the cap is the cap, periodt 👑

but wait, there's a glow-up: if you use the same values in successive calls, the space gets reused — no new malloc() happening, she's just recycling 💅 sustainable queen behaviour honestly 🌈

and for the numbers girlies: the memory allocated is a little less than 150 * (nedge + npoly) bytes. cute, right? ✨

🔥 RETURN VALUE 🔥

• Returns zero on success 🫶
• Returns a negative number if the allocations fail 😭 (yes, that's the sad path, check it fr fr)

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go give these besties a visit, they all live in the same Allegro cinematic universe 🌸

• scene_polygon3d(3alleg4)
• render_scene(3alleg4)
• clear_scene(3alleg4)
• destroy_scene(3alleg4)
• scene_gap(3alleg4)
• create_zbuffer(3alleg4)
• exscn3d(3alleg4)

and that's the whole page, babe 💜 this was Allegro, version 4.4.3, and we're signing off from create_scene(3alleg4) — go forth and allocate responsibly, mwah 💅💖🦋