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Tangent

Tangent

Overview

Tangent.

The Tangent node belongs to the Rendering component and requires at least level 5, its default container field is tangent. It is available from X3D version 4.0 or higher.

Info: Please note that this node is still experimental, i.e. the functionality of this node may change in future versions of X_ITE.

Hierarchy

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+ X3DNode
  + X3DGeometricPropertyNode
   + Tangent

Fields

SFNode [in, out] metadata NULL [X3DMetadataObject]

Information about this node can be contained in a MetadataBoolean, MetadataDouble, MetadataFloat, MetadataInteger, MetadataString or MetadataSet node.

Hint

MFVec4f [in, out] vector [ ] [-1,1]

A unit XYZ vector defining a tangent direction on the surface, and a W component whose sign value (-1 or +1) indicates the handedness of the tangent base.

See Also

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