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    Class HQClouds

    Scene authoring handle for the high-quality volumetric cloud layer (HQCloudPass / HQCloudFeature) — the photoreal multi-scatter clouds, as opposed to the cheaper flat-slab Clouds. A host (the editor, or any app) reads these fields and pushes them into the registered HQCloudFeature.settings. Adding this component to a scene is the signal that HQ clouds should render; a scene should use either Clouds or HQClouds, not both.

    Only a curated subset of HQCloudSettings is surfaced here (the fields most worth authoring); the rest keep their DEFAULT_HQ_CLOUD_SETTINGS values. Wind is authored as a velocity (units/sec on X/Z) and the host integrates it into the feature's windOffset over time, mirroring Clouds.

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    Properties

    id: string = ...

    Stable identity for this component, unique within a session. Auto-generated for runtime-created components; the editor overwrites it with a persistent id when projecting a saved document so references survive save / load / undo.

    enabled: boolean = true

    Whether this component participates in simulation and rendering. When false, the GameObject skips its update/updateRender and the scene's render collectors (mesh renderers, camera, lights, …) ignore it — the component stays attached and keeps its state, like Unity's Behaviour.enabled / Renderer.enabled. Defaults to true.

    gameObject: GameObject

    The owning GameObject; assigned by addComponent before onAttach runs.

    _sceneAttached: boolean = false

    True between onAttach and onDetach — i.e. while this component sits on a GameObject that is part of a live Scene. Managed by GameObject. Internal — do not set directly.

    preset: number

    Cloud preset: 0 Sparse, 1 Cloudy, 2 Overcast, 3 Stormy (drives in-shader vertical curves).

    coverage: number

    Sky cover ratio, 0..1.

    density: number

    Density multiplier on the sampled field.

    bottomAltitude: number

    Cloud-deck bottom altitude above the surface, meters.

    altitudeRange: number

    Cloud-deck thickness, meters.

    anisotropy: number

    Henyey-Greenstein anisotropy (forward scattering).

    extinction: number

    Extinction coefficient (Beer's law).

    ambientColor: [number, number, number]

    Linear-RGB ambient/sky tint feeding the clouds.

    exposure: number

    Exposure scaling on cloud lighting.

    multiScatter: number

    Multi-scatter approximation strength, 0..1.

    windSpeed: [number, number]

    Wind velocity on X/Z (world units per second); integrated by the host.

    cirrus: boolean

    Render the optional high cirrus sheet.

    Accessors

    • get time(): Time

      The simulation clock of the scene this component belongs to. Read inside update (or any time after the GameObject is added to a scene) for absolute time, frame count, FPS, and timeScale-aware delta — e.g. this.time.elapsed, this.time.delta, this.time.frameCount.

      this.time.delta equals the dt argument passed to update, so components can ignore that argument entirely and pull everything from here.

      Returns Time

      if the owning GameObject is not currently part of a scene.

    Methods

    • Connect to a Signal with automatic disconnect when this component is removed from its GameObject — the safe default for cross-object listening, so a destroyed component never leaks into (or gets called by) a signal it once observed. Typically called from onAttach:

      onAttach(): void {
      const health = this.gameObject.getComponent(Health)!;
      this.listen(health.died, () => this.playDeathEffect());
      }

      Type Parameters

      • A extends unknown[]

      Parameters

      Returns () => void

      The unsubscribe function, for listeners that also want to disconnect early; calling it is optional and idempotent.

    • Called when the component joins a live scene — from addComponent when the GameObject is already in a scene, otherwise when the GameObject is added to one. this.gameObject.scene (and scene.engine) is always set here. Override to acquire references to siblings/children or initialize resources.

      Returns void

    • Called every frame by the GameObject's update traversal.

      Parameters

      • _dt: number

        Frame delta time in seconds.

      Returns void

    • Called when this component's GameObject begins touching another body, with the GameObject it collided with. Dispatched by the physics system after each world step (only while playing), so handlers may freely mutate the scene. Requires a physics body (RigidBody / CharacterBody) on the object.

      Parameters

      • _other: GameObject

        The other GameObject involved in the contact.

      Returns void

    • Called every frame by the GameObject's render traversal, after update and any input/controller mutations to the transform. Override to refresh per-frame state that render passes consume (e.g. Camera recomputes its cached view/projection matrices here).

      Parameters

      • _ctx: RenderContext

        Active render context (provides canvas width/height etc.).

      Returns void