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Sharing Groups of Shapes : SharedGroup Node
Some shapes occur over and over in a scene
Marble columns in a colonnade
Basic user interface components
Sharing enables you to create one master definition of a shape then link to it multiple times in the scene
A
SharedGroup
extends Group
It contains shapes, like other groups
It is never added into the scene graph directly
It is referenced by one or more
Link
nodes
Changes to a
SharedGroup
affect all references to it
Can be compiled by calling its compile( ) method prior to referencing it from a
Link
node
Link
extends the
Leaf
class
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