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/*
Bullet Continuous Collision Detection and Physics Library
Copyright (c) 2003-2006 Erwin Coumans  http://continuousphysics.com/Bullet/

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#ifndef STRIDING_MESHINTERFACE_H
#define STRIDING_MESHINTERFACE_H

#include "LinearMath/btVector3.h"
#include "btTriangleCallback.h"

/// PHY_ScalarType enumerates possible scalar types.
/// See the btStridingMeshInterface for its use
typedef enum PHY_ScalarType {
        PHY_FLOAT,
        PHY_DOUBLE,
        PHY_INTEGER,
        PHY_SHORT,
        PHY_FIXEDPOINT88
} PHY_ScalarType;

///     The btStridingMeshInterface is the interface class for high performance generic access to triangle meshes, used in combination with btBvhTriangleMeshShape and some other collision shapes.
/// Using index striding of 3*sizeof(integer) it can use triangle arrays, using index striding of 1*sizeof(integer) it can handle triangle strips.
/// It allows for sharing graphics and collision meshes. Also it provides locking/unlocking of graphics meshes that are in gpu memory.
class  btStridingMeshInterface
{
        protected:
        
                btVector3 m_scaling;

        public:
                btStridingMeshInterface() :m_scaling(btScalar(1.),btScalar(1.),btScalar(1.))
                {

                }

                virtual ~btStridingMeshInterface();



                virtual void    InternalProcessAllTriangles(btInternalTriangleIndexCallback* callback,const btVector3& aabbMin,const btVector3& aabbMax) const;

                ///brute force method to calculate aabb
                void    calculateAabbBruteForce(btVector3& aabbMin,btVector3& aabbMax);

                /// get read and write access to a subpart of a triangle mesh
                /// this subpart has a continuous array of vertices and indices
                /// in this way the mesh can be handled as chunks of memory with striding
                /// very similar to OpenGL vertexarray support
                /// make a call to unLockVertexBase when the read and write access is finished  
                virtual void    getLockedVertexIndexBase(unsigned char **vertexbase, int& numverts,PHY_ScalarType& type, int& stride,unsigned char **indexbase,int & indexstride,int& numfaces,PHY_ScalarType& indicestype,int subpart=0)=0;
                
                virtual void    getLockedReadOnlyVertexIndexBase(const unsigned char **vertexbase, int& numverts,PHY_ScalarType& type, int& stride,const unsigned char **indexbase,int & indexstride,int& numfaces,PHY_ScalarType& indicestype,int subpart=0) const=0;
        
                /// unLockVertexBase finishes the access to a subpart of the triangle mesh
                /// make a call to unLockVertexBase when the read and write access (using getLockedVertexIndexBase) is finished
                virtual void    unLockVertexBase(int subpart)=0;

                virtual void    unLockReadOnlyVertexBase(int subpart) const=0;


                /// getNumSubParts returns the number of seperate subparts
                /// each subpart has a continuous array of vertices and indices
                virtual int             getNumSubParts() const=0;

                virtual void    preallocateVertices(int numverts)=0;
                virtual void    preallocateIndices(int numindices)=0;

                virtual bool    hasPremadeAabb() const { return false; }
                virtual void    setPremadeAabb(const btVector3& aabbMin, const btVector3& aabbMax ) const {}
                virtual void    getPremadeAabb(btVector3* aabbMin, btVector3* aabbMax ) const {}

                const btVector3&        getScaling() const {
                        return m_scaling;
                }
                void    setScaling(const btVector3& scaling)
                {
                        m_scaling = scaling;
                }

        

};

#endif //STRIDING_MESHINTERFACE_H