<viz>.update

Manually trigger update of internal Vizard tasks

<viz>.update(
flag
elapsed = 0.0
)

flag

A combination of the following update flags:

Update flags
viz.UPDATE_PLUGINS	Update all plugin extensions and sensors
viz.UPDATE_INPUT	Update keyboard/mouse input state and trigger any input related events
viz.UPDATE_NETWORK	Update network connections and trigger network related events
viz.UPDATE_SCENEGRAPH	Update internal scene graph animations
viz.UPDATE_TIMERS	Update and trigger timer events
viz.UPDATE_PHYSICS	Update physics simulation and trigger physics events
viz.UPDATE_LINKS	Update all link objects
viz.UPDATE_MEDIA	Update and trigger media events
viz.UPDATE_POSTED_EVENTS	Trigger all pending posted events

elapsed = 0.0

The amount of elapsed time (in seconds) to simulate when triggering the update.

Remarks

This command will trigger the specified internal Vizard update tasks. These tasks are automatically triggered by Vizard every frame at a certain priority level.

If you need certain update tasks to be executed at a custom priority level, then you can use this command.

Return Value

None

Example

# Manually update link and media objects
viz.update( viz.UPDATE_LINKS | viz.UPDATE_MEDIA )