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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#materials">Materials</a></li>
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<h1>Features<a class="headerlink" href="#features" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<h2>Geometry<a class="headerlink" href="#geometry" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<li>Triangles a set of triangles</li>
<li>Polylist a set of polygons with no holes</li>
<li>Polygons a set of polygons that can contain holes (holes unimplemented, currently an alias for Polylist)</li>
<li>Lines a set of lines</li>
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<h2>Source Data<a class="headerlink" href="#source-data" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<li>Vertex</li>
<li>Normals</li>
<li>Multiple texture coordinate sets</li>
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<h2>Materials<a class="headerlink" href="#materials" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<li>Shader types: phong, lambert, blinn, constant</li>
<li>Effect attributes: emission, ambient, diffuse, specular, shininess, reflective, reflectivity, transparent, transparency</li>
<li>Texture support: Can read from local file, zip archives, or a custom auxiliary file handler</li>
<li>Loads texture images with PIL if available</li>
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<h2>Lights<a class="headerlink" href="#lights" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<li>Directional</li>
<li>Ambient</li>
<li>Point</li>
<li>Spot</li>
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<h2>Cameras<a class="headerlink" href="#cameras" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<li>Perspective</li>
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<h2>Scenes<a class="headerlink" href="#scenes" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<li>Full scene construction</li>
<li>Transformations: rotate, scale, translate, matrix, lookat (for cameras)</li>
<li>Supports iterating through a scene, yielding transformed geometry</li>
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<h2>Controllers<a class="headerlink" href="#controllers" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<li>Currently experimental (more support coming)</li>
<li>Morph</li>
<li>Skin</li>
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<h2>Additional Features<a class="headerlink" href="#additional-features" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<li>Fast triangulation of polygons</li>
<li>Fast computation of normals</li>
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