/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2007 VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.simantics.proconf.g3d.base;

import java.util.Collection;

import org.simantics.layer0.utils.IEntity;

import com.jme.renderer.Renderer;
import com.jme.scene.state.RenderState;


/**
 * Interface for Appearance / Material
 * 
 * 
 * @author Marko Luukkainen
 *
 */
public interface AppearanceProvider {
    
	/**
	 * Used to check if GeometryProvider can generate mesh
	 * @param instance
	 * @return
	 */
    public boolean canHandle(IEntity instance);
	
    /**
     * Generates mesh
     * @param instance
     * @param transform
     * @return
     */
    public Collection<RenderState> getAppearanceFromResource(IEntity instance, Renderer renderer);
    

}