Rule Name: Inheritance Rule For Location

Definition

Given any object that has a Location component, that Location (or the first Location in an ordered list of Location components) becomes the (default) Location in the context for the aggregation tree stemming from that object.

Rationale

Allows Reference Vectors and World 3X3 to automatically inherit a Location component as required for some coordinate transformations and conversions.

Example

1. A Positional Light has both a Location component and a Lobe Data component. The Lobe Data, in turn, has 2 Reference Vector components. These two Reference Vectors inherit the Positional Light's Location by this rule.

FAQs

How does the data consumer use this form of inheritance?

The data consumer does not use it directly. It is sometimes used by the Read (Extraction) API implementation when the consumer requests data extraction in another spatial reference frame