rtcReleaseBVH(3)

💖 rtcReleaseBVH — the "okay bye bestie" of the Embree Ray Tracing Kernels 3 manual, page rtcReleaseBVH(3) ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

rtcReleaseBVH — decrements the BVH reference count 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <embree3/rtcore.h>

void rtcReleaseBVH(RTCBVH bvh);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so first things first, bestie: BVH objects are reference counted. that's the whole vibe. they're keeping track of how many people still care about them 🥺

The rtcReleaseBVH function decrements the reference count of the BVH object you hand it (that's the bvh argument, queen). and the moment that reference count falls all the way down to 0? the BVH gets destroyed. gone. not me crying 😭 it's giving "you don't have to go home but you can't stay here."

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

On failure an error code is set that can be queried using rtcGetDeviceError. so if something goes sideways, that's where you go looking, fr fr 👑

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• [rtcNewBVH]
• [rtcRetainBVH]

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this lil' icon lives in the Embree Ray Tracing Kernels 3 collection, and the page signs off as rtcReleaseBVH(3). take care of your reference counts and they'll take care of you 🫶🌸✨