rtcGetBufferData(3)

✨ rtcGetBufferData ✨

ok so bestie, we're in section 3 of the Embree Ray Tracing Kernels 3 manuals today and the star of the show is rtcGetBufferData(3) — she's giving utility, she's giving pointer-retrieval, she's lowkey carrying the whole buffer ecosystem 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

rtcGetBufferData — gets a pointer to the buffer data 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <embree3/rtcore.h>

void* rtcGetBufferData(RTCBuffer buffer);

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so picture this: you've got a buffer object, right? and you're like "bestie... where's your data at 👀". That's literally what rtcGetBufferData does for you.

The rtcGetBufferData function returns a pointer to the buffer data of the specified buffer object — that's the buffer argument, the one you hand over. You give her the buffer, she gives you the pointer. No cap. Simple, iconic, done. ✨

🦋 EXIT STATUS 🦋

On failure an error code is set that can be queried using rtcGetDeviceError.

so if things go sideways 😭 an error code gets set, and you go check it with rtcGetDeviceError. That's the vibe check. Do not skip the vibe check.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• [rtcNewBuffer]

and that's the whole page fr fr — written up in the Embree Ray Tracing Kernels 3 docs, rtcGetBufferData(3), same name up top and down at the bottom 'cause she's consistent like that 👑💜