IrrEdit: How to access single objects like meshes etc.

[Daerst]

Hi there,

so, I wanna use .irr-files to add my scenes in a game, but I didn't find the answer for this kinda basic question: how to access single objects in the whole scene? So if I have a terrain with a house and a dwarf, how can I for example make the dwarf move or rotate or whatever?

Thank you,
Daerst

[FlyingIsFun1217]

Use a pointer.

FlyingIsFun1217

[Daerst]

Sorry, I don't quite get that... Pointing to what? O_O Could you give an example or a link where it's explained?

[Kurak]

You mean in game?

You can get RootSceneNode children list and iterate through it getting pointers to scene nodes you want.

1. Get RootSceneNode children list (smgr->getRootSceneNode()->getChilden() afair)
2. iterate through it (for)
3. for each node you can check type of node (by calling getType method) and name (getName) and some other things but I use only these 2 in my game to qualify each scene node as gameplay object (as power-up or sth)

For example, you want to get all mesh scene nodes from scene:

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core::list<IMeshSceneNode*> meshList;
for(core::list<ISceneNode*>::Iterator itor = smgr->getRootSceneNode().getChildren().begin(); itor != smgr->getRootSceneNode().getChildren().end(); ++itor)
{
  if((*itor)->getType() == ESNT_MESH)
  {
    meshList.push_back((IMeshSceneNode*)(*itor));
    cout << "Hey guys I found funny node with name " << (*itor)->getName() << endl;
  }
}

I hope my post was helpful ;]

[Daerst]

Exactly what I needed

I hope my post was helpful ;]

It definitely was, thank you