# ClassificationPrimitive

#### new Cesium.ClassificationPrimitive(options)
Scene/ClassificationPrimitive.js 73

A classification primitive represents a volume enclosing geometry in the `Scene` to be highlighted.

A primitive combines geometry instances with an `Appearance` that describes the full shading, including `Material` and `RenderState`. Roughly, the geometry instance defines the structure and placement, and the appearance defines the visual characteristics. Decoupling geometry and appearance allows us to mix and match most of them and add a new geometry or appearance independently of each other. Only `PerInstanceColorAppearance` with the same color across all instances is supported at this time when using ClassificationPrimitive directly. For full `Appearance` support when classifying terrain or 3D Tiles use `GroundPrimitive` instead.

For correct rendering, this feature requires the EXT_frag_depth WebGL extension. For hardware that do not support this extension, there will be rendering artifacts for some viewing angles.

Valid geometries are `BoxGeometry`, `CylinderGeometry`, `EllipsoidGeometry`, `PolylineVolumeGeometry`, and `SphereGeometry`.

Geometries that follow the surface of the ellipsoid, such as `CircleGeometry`, `CorridorGeometry`, `EllipseGeometry`, `PolygonGeometry`, and `RectangleGeometry`, are also valid if they are extruded volumes; otherwise, they will not be rendered.

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
`options` | Object | optional Object with the following properties:
Name | Type | Default | Description
--- | --- | --- | ---
`geometryInstances` | Array | GeometryInstance |  | optional The geometry instances to render. This can either be a single instance or an array of length one.
`appearance` | Appearance |  | optional The appearance used to render the primitive. Defaults to PerInstanceColorAppearance when GeometryInstances have a color attribute.
`show` | Boolean | `true` | optional Determines if this primitive will be shown.
`vertexCacheOptimize` | Boolean | `false` | optional When `true`, geometry vertices are optimized for the pre and post-vertex-shader caches.
`interleave` | Boolean | `false` | optional When `true`, geometry vertex attributes are interleaved, which can slightly improve rendering performance but increases load time.
`compressVertices` | Boolean | `true` | optional When `true`, the geometry vertices are compressed, which will save memory.
`releaseGeometryInstances` | Boolean | `true` | optional When `true`, the primitive does not keep a reference to the input `geometryInstances` to save memory.
`allowPicking` | Boolean | `true` | optional When `true`, each geometry instance will only be pickable with `Scene#pick`. When `false`, GPU memory is saved.
`asynchronous` | Boolean | `true` | optional Determines if the primitive will be created asynchronously or block until ready. If false initializeTerrainHeights() must be called first.
`classificationType` | ClassificationType | `ClassificationType.BOTH` | optional Determines whether terrain, 3D Tiles or both will be classified.
`debugShowBoundingVolume` | Boolean | `false` | optional For debugging only. Determines if this primitive's commands' bounding spheres are shown.
`debugShowShadowVolume` | Boolean | `false` | optional For debugging only. Determines if the shadow volume for each geometry in the primitive is drawn. Must be `true` on creation for the volumes to be created before the geometry is released or options.releaseGeometryInstance must be `false`.

##### See:

- Primitive
- GroundPrimitive
- GeometryInstance
- Appearance

### Members

#### readonly allowPicking : Boolean
Scene/ClassificationPrimitive.js 264

When `true`, each geometry instance will only be pickable with `Scene#pick`. When `false`, GPU memory is saved.

Default Value: `true`

#### readonly asynchronous : Boolean
Scene/ClassificationPrimitive.js 280

Determines if the geometry instances will be created and batched on a web worker.

Default Value: `true`

#### classificationType : ClassificationType
Scene/ClassificationPrimitive.js 112

Determines whether terrain, 3D Tiles or both will be classified.

Default Value: `ClassificationType.BOTH`

#### readonly compressVertices : Boolean
Scene/ClassificationPrimitive.js 296

When `true`, geometry vertices are compressed, which will save memory.

Default Value: `true`

#### debugShowBoundingVolume : Boolean
Scene/ClassificationPrimitive.js 126

This property is for debugging only; it is not for production use nor is it optimized.

Draws the bounding sphere for each draw command in the primitive.

Default Value: `false`

#### debugShowShadowVolume : Boolean
Scene/ClassificationPrimitive.js 140

This property is for debugging only; it is not for production use nor is it optimized.

Draws the shadow volume for each geometry in the primitive.

Default Value: `false`

#### readonly geometryInstances : Array|GeometryInstance
Scene/ClassificationPrimitive.js 95

The geometry instance rendered with this primitive. This may be `undefined` if `options.releaseGeometryInstances` is `true` when the primitive is constructed.

Changing this property after the primitive is rendered has no effect.

Because of the rendering technique used, all geometry instances must be the same color. If there is an instance with a differing color, a `DeveloperError` will be thrown on the first attempt to render.

Default Value: `undefined`

#### readonly interleave : Boolean
Scene/ClassificationPrimitive.js 232

Determines if geometry vertex attributes are interleaved, which can slightly improve rendering performance.

Default Value: `false`

#### readonly ready : Boolean
Scene/ClassificationPrimitive.js 312

Determines if the primitive is complete and ready to render. If this property is true, the primitive will be rendered the next time that `ClassificationPrimitive#update` is called.

#### readonly readyPromise : Promise.<ClassificationPrimitive>
Scene/ClassificationPrimitive.js 324

Gets a promise that resolves when the primitive is ready to render.

#### readonly releaseGeometryInstances : Boolean
Scene/ClassificationPrimitive.js 248

When `true`, the primitive does not keep a reference to the input `geometryInstances` to save memory.

Default Value: `true`

#### show : Boolean
Scene/ClassificationPrimitive.js 104

Determines if the primitive will be shown. This affects all geometry instances in the primitive.

Default Value: `true`

#### readonly vertexCacheOptimize : Boolean
Scene/ClassificationPrimitive.js 216

When `true`, geometry vertices are optimized for the pre and post-vertex-shader caches.

Default Value: `true`

### Methods

#### static Cesium.ClassificationPrimitive.isSupported(scene) → Boolean
Scene/ClassificationPrimitive.js 354

Determines if ClassificationPrimitive rendering is supported.

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
`scene` | Scene | The scene.

##### Returns:

`true` if ClassificationPrimitives are supported; otherwise, returns `false`

#### destroy()
Scene/ClassificationPrimitive.js 1413

Destroys the WebGL resources held by this object. Destroying an object allows for deterministic release of WebGL resources, instead of relying on the garbage collector to destroy this object.

Once an object is destroyed, it should not be used; calling any function other than `isDestroyed` will result in a `DeveloperError` exception. Therefore, assign the return value (`undefined`) to the object as done in the example.

##### Throws:

- DeveloperError : This object was destroyed, i.e., destroy() was called.

##### Example:

    e = e && e.destroy();

##### See:

- ClassificationPrimitive#isDestroyed

#### getGeometryInstanceAttributes(id) → Object
Scene/ClassificationPrimitive.js 1369

Returns the modifiable per-instance attributes for a `GeometryInstance`.

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
`id` | * | The id of the `GeometryInstance`.

##### Returns:

The typed array in the attribute's format or undefined if the is no instance with id.

##### Throws:

- DeveloperError : must call update before calling getGeometryInstanceAttributes.

##### Example:

    var attributes = primitive.getGeometryInstanceAttributes('an id');
    attributes.color = Cesium.ColorGeometryInstanceAttribute.toValue(Cesium.Color.AQUA);
    attributes.show = Cesium.ShowGeometryInstanceAttribute.toValue(true);

#### isDestroyed() → Boolean
Scene/ClassificationPrimitive.js 1393

Returns true if this object was destroyed; otherwise, false.

If this object was destroyed, it should not be used; calling any function other than `isDestroyed` will result in a `DeveloperError` exception.

##### Returns:

`true` if this object was destroyed; otherwise, `false`.

##### See:

- ClassificationPrimitive#destroy

#### update()
Scene/ClassificationPrimitive.js 1073

Called when `Viewer` or `CesiumWidget` render the scene to get the draw commands needed to render this primitive.

Do not call this function directly. This is documented just to list the exceptions that may be propagated when the scene is rendered:

##### Throws:

- DeveloperError : All instance geometries must have the same primitiveType.
- DeveloperError : Appearance and material have a uniform with the same name.
- DeveloperError : Not all of the geometry instances have the same color attribute.