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RenderingServer

Inherits: Object

Server for anything visible.

Description

The rendering server is the API backend for everything visible. The whole scene system mounts on it to display. The rendering server is completely opaque: the internals are entirely implementation-specific and cannot be accessed.

The rendering server can be used to bypass the scene/Node system entirely. This can improve performance in cases where the scene system is the bottleneck, but won't improve performance otherwise (for instance, if the GPU is already fully utilized).

Resources are created using the *_create functions. These functions return RIDs which are not references to the objects themselves, but opaque pointers towards these objects.

All objects are drawn to a viewport. You can use the Viewport attached to the SceneTree or you can create one yourself with viewport_create. When using a custom scenario or canvas, the scenario or canvas needs to be attached to the viewport using viewport_set_scenario or viewport_attach_canvas.

Scenarios: In 3D, all visual objects must be associated with a scenario. The scenario is a visual representation of the world. If accessing the rendering server from a running game, the scenario can be accessed from the scene tree from any Node3D node with Node3D.get_world_3d. Otherwise, a scenario can be created with scenario_create.

Similarly, in 2D, a canvas is needed to draw all canvas items.

3D: In 3D, all visible objects are comprised of a resource and an instance. A resource can be a mesh, a particle system, a light, or any other 3D object. In order to be visible resources must be attached to an instance using instance_set_base. The instance must also be attached to the scenario using instance_set_scenario in order to be visible. RenderingServer methods that don't have a prefix are usually 3D-specific (but not always).

2D: In 2D, all visible objects are some form of canvas item. In order to be visible, a canvas item needs to be the child of a canvas attached to a viewport, or it needs to be the child of another canvas item that is eventually attached to the canvas. 2D-specific RenderingServer methods generally start with canvas_*.

Headless mode: Starting the engine with the --headless command line argument disables all rendering and window management functions. Most functions from RenderingServer will return dummy values in this case.

Tutorials

• Optimization using Servers

Properties

bool	render_loop_enabled

Methods

Image[]	bake_render_uv2 ( RID base, RID[] material_overrides, Vector2i image_size )
RID	camera_attributes_create ( )
void	camera_attributes_set_auto_exposure ( RID camera_attributes, bool enable, float min_sensitivity, float max_sensitivity, float speed, float scale )
void	camera_attributes_set_dof_blur ( RID camera_attributes, bool far_enable, float far_distance, float far_transition, bool near_enable, float near_distance, float near_transition, float amount )
void	camera_attributes_set_dof_blur_bokeh_shape ( DOFBokehShape shape )
void	camera_attributes_set_dof_blur_quality ( DOFBlurQuality quality, bool use_jitter )
void	camera_attributes_set_exposure ( RID camera_attributes, float multiplier, float normalization )
RID	camera_create ( )
void	camera_set_camera_attributes ( RID camera, RID effects )
void	camera_set_cull_mask ( RID camera, int layers )
void	camera_set_environment ( RID camera, RID env )
void	camera_set_frustum ( RID camera, float size, Vector2 offset, float z_near, float z_far )
void	camera_set_orthogonal ( RID camera, float size, float z_near, float z_far )
void	camera_set_perspective ( RID camera, float fovy_degrees, float z_near, float z_far )
void	camera_set_transform ( RID camera, Transform3D transform )
void	camera_set_use_vertical_aspect ( RID camera, bool enable )
RID	canvas_create ( )
void	canvas_item_add_animation_slice ( RID item, float animation_length, float slice_begin, float slice_end, float offset=0.0 )
void	canvas_item_add_circle ( RID item, Vector2 pos, float radius, Color color )
void	canvas_item_add_clip_ignore ( RID item, bool ignore )
void	canvas_item_add_lcd_texture_rect_region ( RID item, Rect2 rect, RID texture, Rect2 src_rect, Color modulate )
void	canvas_item_add_line ( RID item, Vector2 from, Vector2 to, Color color, float width=-1.0, bool antialiased=false )
void	canvas_item_add_mesh ( RID item, RID mesh, Transform2D transform=Transform2D(1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0), Color modulate=Color(1, 1, 1, 1), RID texture )
void	canvas_item_add_msdf_texture_rect_region ( RID item, Rect2 rect, RID texture, Rect2 src_rect, Color modulate=Color(1, 1, 1, 1), int outline_size=0, float px_range=1.0, float scale=1.0 )
void	canvas_item_add_multiline ( RID item, PackedVector2Array points, PackedColorArray colors, float width=-1.0 )
void	canvas_item_add_multimesh ( RID item, RID mesh, RID texture )
void	canvas_item_add_nine_patch ( RID item, Rect2 rect, Rect2 source, RID texture, Vector2 topleft, Vector2 bottomright, NinePatchAxisMode x_axis_mode=0, NinePatchAxisMode y_axis_mode=0, bool draw_center=true, Color modulate=Color(1, 1, 1, 1) )
void	canvas_item_add_particles ( RID item, RID particles, RID texture )
void	canvas_item_add_polygon ( RID item, PackedVector2Array points, PackedColorArray colors, PackedVector2Array uvs=PackedVector2Array(), RID texture )
void	canvas_item_add_polyline ( RID item, PackedVector2Array points, PackedColorArray colors, float width=-1.0, bool antialiased=false )
void	canvas_item_add_primitive ( RID item, PackedVector2Array points, PackedColorArray colors, PackedVector2Array uvs, RID texture )
void	canvas_item_add_rect ( RID item, Rect2 rect, Color color )
void	canvas_item_add_set_transform ( RID item, Transform2D transform )
void	canvas_item_add_texture_rect ( RID item, Rect2 rect, RID texture, bool tile=false, Color modulate=Color(1, 1, 1, 1), bool transpose=false )
void	canvas_item_add_texture_rect_region ( RID item, Rect2 rect, RID texture, Rect2 src_rect, Color modulate=Color(1, 1, 1, 1), bool transpose=false, bool clip_uv=true )
void	canvas_item_add_triangle_array ( RID item, PackedInt32Array indices, PackedVector2Array points, PackedColorArray colors, PackedVector2Array uvs=PackedVector2Array(), PackedInt32Array bones=PackedInt32Array(), PackedFloat32Array weights=PackedFloat32Array(), RID texture, int count=-1 )
void	canvas_item_clear ( RID item )
RID	canvas_item_create ( )
void	canvas_item_set_canvas_group_mode ( RID item, CanvasGroupMode mode, float clear_margin=5.0, bool fit_empty=false, float fit_margin=0.0, bool blur_mipmaps=false )
void	canvas_item_set_clip ( RID item, bool clip )
void	canvas_item_set_copy_to_backbuffer ( RID item, bool enabled, Rect2 rect )
void	canvas_item_set_custom_rect ( RID item, bool use_custom_rect, Rect2 rect=Rect2(0, 0, 0, 0) )
void	canvas_item_set_default_texture_filter ( RID item, CanvasItemTextureFilter filter )
void	canvas_item_set_default_texture_repeat ( RID item, CanvasItemTextureRepeat repeat )
void	canvas_item_set_distance_field_mode ( RID item, bool enabled )
void	canvas_item_set_draw_behind_parent ( RID item, bool enabled )
void	canvas_item_set_draw_index ( RID item, int index )
void	canvas_item_set_light_mask ( RID item, int mask )
void	canvas_item_set_material ( RID item, RID material )
void	canvas_item_set_modulate ( RID item, Color color )
void	canvas_item_set_parent ( RID item, RID parent )
void	canvas_item_set_self_modulate ( RID item, Color color )
void	canvas_item_set_sort_children_by_y ( RID item, bool enabled )
void	canvas_item_set_transform ( RID item, Transform2D transform )
void	canvas_item_set_use_parent_material ( RID item, bool