File formats & reference

Legacy reference material on Panda3D’s file formats, configuration, and a few specific workflows. Much of this predates the modern docs and describes the engine at a detailed, format-spec level; it has been cleaned up and split by topic, but treat specific API details with appropriate suspicion and check against the source or the Engine subsystems pages, which document the current code.

Contents

Page	What it covers
The GraphicsEngine	GraphicsEngine/GraphicsPipe/GraphicsStateGuardian/GraphicsWindow/GraphicsBuffer — creating windows & offscreen buffers (see also Display & GSG backends).
ppython	What ppython is and why it exists.
Panda Audio API	AudioManager/AudioSound usage (see also the Audio deep-dive).
Coding style	Panda3D’s C++ coding-style conventions.
Collision flags	Collision bit-flag reference (see also Collision & physics).
egg-palettize	The texture-palettizer tool and .txa syntax (see also pandatool).
The egg file format	The full .egg file-format specification — entries, geometry, grouping, collision, animation (see also the Egg library & loader deep-dive).
How to control render order	Cull bins, sort order, and depth sorting (see also Scene graph).
How to make a multipart actor	Multipart vs. half-body actors and how to assemble them.
MultiGen model flags	MultiGen exporter model-flag reference.
Multi-texturing in Maya	Setting up multi-texturing in the Maya exporter.
The Config (PRC) system	Defining, assigning, querying, and managing PRC config variables (see also the dtool / config deep-dive).