SoMaterialBindingElement(3)

🌸 NAME 🌸

SoMaterialBindingElement — bestie, I'm gonna be so real with you. This is a Coin element class, and the official docs say, word for word, that it "is yet to be documented". That's it. That's the lore. 💀

It lives in Coin and it inherits from SoInt32Element.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <Inventor/elements/SoMaterialBindingElement.h>

Inherits SoInt32Element.

🎀 Public Types 🎀

enum Binding { OVERALL = 2, PER_PART = 3, PER_PART_INDEXED = 4, PER_FACE = 5,
    PER_FACE_INDEXED = 6, PER_VERTEX = 7, PER_VERTEX_INDEXED = 8,
    DEFAULT = OVERALL, NONE = OVERALL }

Breaking that down so your brain doesn't buffer, gorgeous:

• OVERALL = 2
• PER_PART = 3
• PER_PART_INDEXED = 4
• PER_FACE = 5
• PER_FACE_INDEXED = 6
• PER_VERTEX = 7
• PER_VERTEX_INDEXED = 8
• DEFAULT = OVERALL
• NONE = OVERALL

💖 Public Member Functions 💖

• virtual void init (SoState *state) — initializes the element to its default value. (More on this down in the member function docs, don't scroll too fast 🫶)

Public Member Functions inherited from SoInt32Element

• virtual SbBool matches (const SoElement *element) const
• virtual SoElement * copyMatchInfo (void) const
• virtual void print (FILE *file) const
• virtual void setElt (int32_t value)

Public Member Functions inherited from SoElement

• const SoType getTypeId (void) const
• int getStackIndex (void) const
• virtual void push (SoState *state)
• virtual void pop (SoState *state, const SoElement *prevTopElement)
• void setDepth (const int depth)
• int getDepth (void) const
• virtual ~SoElement ()

👑 Static Public Member Functions 👑

• static SoType getClassTypeId (void)
• static int getClassStackIndex (void)
• static void * createInstance (void)
• static void initClass (void)
• static void set (SoState *const state, SoNode *const node, const Binding binding) — FIXME: write doc.
• static void set (SoState *const state, const Binding binding) — FIXME: write doc.
• static Binding get (SoState *const state) — FIXME: write doc.
• static Binding getDefault () — FIXME: write doc.

Yes bestie, those FIXME: write doc. lines are literally in the source. Not my fault, I'm just the messenger. 😭

Static Public Member Functions inherited from SoInt32Element

• static SoType getClassTypeId (void)
• static int getClassStackIndex (void)
• static void initClass (void)
• static void set (const int index, SoState *const state, SoNode *const node, const int32_t value)
• static void set (const int index, SoState *const state, const int32_t value)
• static int32_t get (const int index, SoState *const state)

Static Public Member Functions inherited from SoElement

• static void initClass (void)
• static SoType getClassTypeId (void)
• static int getClassStackIndex (void)
• static void initElements (void)
• static int getNumStackIndices (void)
• static SoType getIdFromStackIndex (const int stackIndex)

🦋 Protected Member Functions 🦋

• virtual ~SoMaterialBindingElement ()

Protected Member Functions inherited from SoInt32Element

• virtual ~SoInt32Element ()

Protected Member Functions inherited from SoElement

• SoElement (void)
• void capture (SoState *const state) const
• virtual void captureThis (SoState *state) const
• void setTypeId (const SoType typeId)
• void setStackIndex (const int index)
• SoElement * getNextInStack (void) const
• SoElement * getNextFree (void) const

🌈 Additional Inherited Members 🌈

Static Protected Member Functions inherited from SoElement

• static SoElement * getElement (SoState *const state, const int stackIndex)
• static const SoElement * getConstElement (SoState *const state, const int stackIndex)
• static int createStackIndex (const SoType id)

Protected Attributes inherited from SoInt32Element

• int32_t data

Protected Attributes inherited from SoElement

• SoType typeId
• int stackIndex
• int depth

Static Protected Attributes inherited from SoElement

• static int classStackIndex
• static SoTypeList * stackToType

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💅 Detailed Description 💅

The SoMaterialBindingElement class is yet to be documented.

FIXME: write doc.

Iconic. Legendary. Undocumented. 🎀

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🔥 Member Enumeration Documentation 🔥

enum SoMaterialBindingElement::Binding

FIXME: write doc.

Not me having zero enum docs to give you. The values themselves are all up in Public Types though, so you're not totally stranded. 💖

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🫶 Constructor & Destructor Documentation 🫶

SoMaterialBindingElement::~SoMaterialBindingElement (void ) [protected], [virtual]

Destructor. That's the whole sentence, bestie, I'm not embellishing a destructor. 🦋

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⭐ Member Function Documentation ⭐

SoType SoMaterialBindingElement::getClassTypeId (void ) [static]

This static method returns the SoType object associated with objects of this class.

int SoMaterialBindingElement::getClassStackIndex (void ) [static]

This static method returns the state stack index for the class.

void * SoMaterialBindingElement::createInstance (void ) [static]

This API member is considered internal to the library, as it is not likely to be of interest to the application programmer.

Creates a new instance of the class type corresponding to the SoType object.

void SoMaterialBindingElement::initClass (void ) [static]

Initialize relevant common data for all instances, like the type system.

void SoMaterialBindingElement::init (SoState * state) [virtual]

Initializes the element to its default value. The default value for materialBinding is SoMaterialBindingElement::DEFAULT.

Reimplemented from SoInt32Element.

There it is — the one function on this whole page with actual documentation. DEFAULT, for the record, is OVERALL. Periodt. ✨

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🎀 Author 🎀

Generated automatically by Doxygen for Coin from the source code.

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And that's the whole page, my love. 💖 This one came from the Coin manual, Version 4.0.10, dated Thu Jun 25 2026 00:00:00 — so when you're citing it in a bug report or a group chat, that's the receipts. Go forth and bind your materials. Mwah. 💅🦋