From c510a8fa3e00f786ed85ba1366faf0c0d0635811 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: HifiExperiments <thingsandstuffblog@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 15:10:14 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] add comment about material sphere scale
---
.../entities-renderer/src/RenderableMaterialEntityItem.cpp | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/libraries/entities-renderer/src/RenderableMaterialEntityItem.cpp b/libraries/entities-renderer/src/RenderableMaterialEntityItem.cpp
index 6b9ae6b4cf..3d2e59518c 100644
--- a/libraries/entities-renderer/src/RenderableMaterialEntityItem.cpp
+++ b/libraries/entities-renderer/src/RenderableMaterialEntityItem.cpp
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ void MaterialEntityRenderer::doRenderUpdateSynchronousTyped(const ScenePointer&
AbstractViewStateInterface::instance()->pushPostUpdateLambda(key, [this, entity] {
withWriteLock([&] {
_renderTransform = getModelTransform();
+ // Material entities should fit inside a cube entity of the same size, so a sphere that has dimensions 1x1x1
+ // is a half unit sphere. However, the geometry cache renders a UNIT sphere, so we need to scale down.
const float MATERIAL_ENTITY_SCALE = 0.5f;
_renderTransform.postScale(MATERIAL_ENTITY_SCALE);
_renderTransform.postScale(ENTITY_ITEM_DEFAULT_DIMENSIONS);