Not sure if this has been covered, but I came to the realisation that replacing the Load* functions is quite simple with low overhead...

example (in coffeescript)

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class Color
	constructor: (r, g, b, a=255) ->
		color = CreateColor r, g, b, a
		color.constructor = c
		return color

white = new Color 255, 255, 255

In JS you can return another object from a constructor, so all we have to do is fix the constructor of Sphere's object. The fixed object is still accepted by the API, and instanceof works.

in JS

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    function Color(r, g, b, a) {
      var color;
      if (a == null) {
        a = 255;
      }
      color = CreateColor(r, g, b, a);
      color.constructor = Color;
      return color;
    }

You say "instanceof works" but what does it report for such an object?

Other than my small confusion regarding that (I'm probably simply brainfarting and it's probably "[Object Color]" all along), I agree that this is a great and simple method to wrap Sphere's native object creators

You say "instanceof works" but what does it report for such an object?

Other than my small confusion regarding that (I'm probably simply brainfarting and it's probably "[Object Color]" all along), I agree that this is a great and simple method to wrap Sphere's native object creators

specifically,

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var color = new Color(255, 255, 255); // actually returns a Sphere color object
color instanceof Color // true

One other thing you can do that also (appears) to work:

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    function Color(r, g, b, a) {
      var color;
      if (a == null) {
        a = 255;
      }
      color = CreateColor(r, g, b, a);
      color.constructor = Color;
      color.__proto__ = Color.prototype;
      return color;
    }

    Color.prototype.grayscale = function() { return (this.red + this.green + this.blue) / 3; }

you can actually define methods on Color's prototype that work as normal!

Ooh! Even better, thanks! I do believe I shall sticky this topic.