rtcReleaseGeometry(3)

✨ rtcReleaseGeometry(3) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Embree Ray Tracing Kernels 3 manual, and today's main character is rtcReleaseGeometry(3) — the lil function that says "okay bye, you can go now" to a geometry 💅

🎀 NAME 🎀

rtcReleaseGeometry — decrements the geometry reference count 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <embree3/rtcore.h>

void rtcReleaseGeometry(RTCGeometry geometry);

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the vibe: geometry objects are reference counted. like, they're keeping track of how many people still love them 🥺

the rtcReleaseGeometry function decrements the reference count of the geometry object you pass in (that's the geometry argument, bestie). and the moment that reference count falls all the way down to 0? the geometry gets destroyed. gone. poof. no cap 💀

so yeah, it's giving "last one out turns off the lights" energy ✨

💜 EXIT STATUS 💜

if something goes wrong, an error code gets set, and you can go query it with rtcGetDeviceError 👀 so like, if it's acting up, that's where you look, fr fr.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• [rtcNewGeometry]
• [rtcRetainGeometry]

and that's the whole page, bestie 🍓 this was rtcReleaseGeometry(3) from the Embree Ray Tracing Kernels 3 era — take care of those reference counts and they'll take care of you 🧚💖 periodt ✨