Scene description update system for game engines

An apparatus comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• memory storing instructions operative, when executed by the processor, to cause the apparatus to:
• obtain patch data,
• wherein the patch data specifies an update to scene description data for a three-dimensional (3D) scene, and
• wherein the scene description data comprises scene element information describing at least one scene element for a subset of the scene;
• parse the patch data into scene description update parameters for one or more nodes;
• map at least one of the one or more nodes of the scene description update parameters to corresponding entities of a game engine object;
• and
• apply the scene description update parameters to the mapped corresponding entities of the game engine object.

A method comprising:

• obtaining patch data,
• wherein the patch data specifies an update to scene description data for a three-dimensional (3D) scene, and
• wherein the scene description data comprises scene element information describing at least one scene element for a subset of the scene;
• parsing the patch data into scene description update parameters for a node;
• and
• applying the scene description update parameters for the node to corresponding entities of the game engine object.