IAnimatedMesh in IAnimatedMeshSceneNode

[ghiboz]

Hi!
I have a IAnimatedMeshSceneNode that contains IAnimatedMesh as child.
How can I cycle across the childrens?
I tried with ->getChildren but retrieve a IMesh and my node contains only animated meshes

thanks

[hybrid]

getChildren should return a list of scene nodes. You can check the type of a scene node and cast to the proper interface.

[MasterGod]

Hi!
I have a IAnimatedMeshSceneNode that contains IAnimatedMesh as child.
How can I cycle across the childrens?

First a scene node can only have other scene nodes as children not meshes ('fix me' if I'm wrong).
Second, to iterate across its (the scene node's) children you can do something like this:

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const core::list<ISceneNode*>& list = YourNode->getChildren();
core::list<ISceneNode*>::ConstIterator it = list.begin();
for (; it!=list.end(); ++it)
{
	// (*it) is the current children.
	// do with *it whatever you want
	// e.g: (*it)->remove();
}

[rogerborg]

I have a IAnimatedMeshSceneNode that contains IAnimatedMesh as child. How can I cycle across the childrens?

IAnimatedMeshSceneNode has at most one (1) IAnimatedMesh.

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IAnimatedMesh* IAnimatedMeshSceneNode::getMesh(void);

I tried with ->getChildren but retrieve a IMesh

Which getChildren() method do you think is returning you an IMesh, or an array of IMesh? Can you point at that method in the API?

IAnimatedMeshSceneNode::getChildren() resolves to ISceneNode::getChildren().

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const core::list<ISceneNode*>& getChildren() const

ISceneNode*, not IMesh*

and my node contains only animated meshes

It contains at most one (1) IAnimatedMesh. What is leading you to believe otherwise?

[ghiboz]

thanks for your replies:
I explain better...
I made my personal file importer and I have this:

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IAnimatedMeshSceneNode* gbzNode = 0;

for( int gm = 0; gm < gbzMeshes.size(); gm ++ )
{
	IAnimatedMesh* mesh = readStaticMesh( gm );
	gbzNode = Smgr->addAnimatedMeshSceneNode( mesh );
}
return gbzNode;

gbzNode is an AnimatedMeshSceneNode that contains many animatedmeshshenenodes (right?)

i tried to do this:

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core::list<scene::ISceneNode*>::ConstIterator it gbzNode->getChildren().begin();
for (; it != gbzNode->getChildren().end(); it = gbzNode->getChildren().begin())
	(*it)->setDebugDataVisible(scene::EDS_OFF);

but doesn't work, 'cause the getChildren retrieve a MeshNode and not AnimatedMeshNode

[hybrid]

No, that pointer only contains the latest added animated mesh scene node. Simply because that's the way C++ handles such stuff

[ghiboz]

No, that pointer only contains the latest added animated mesh scene node. Simply because that's the way C++ handles such stuff

ok, but what's the best way to do?
I have many animatedmesh to insert in one or more animatedmeshscenenode...
thanks

[hybrid]

No, you only have *one* per scene node. Simply use many scene nodes.

[ghiboz]

No, you only have *one* per scene node. Simply use many scene nodes.

yes, but can I have 1 main animatedscenenode (empty) and many animatedscenenodes with one mesh inside??

thanks mate!

[hybrid]

I guess that an empty animated mesh scene node is unnecessary overhead, better use an empty scene node. What do you want to achieve with this?

[rogerborg]

I'd imagine that you want something like this:

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ISceneNode * yourFunctionOrMethod(...)
{
    ...

    ISceneNode * parent = Smgr->addEmptySceneNode(0);

    IAnimatedMeshSceneNode* gbzNode = 0;

    for( int gm = 0; gm < gbzMeshes.size(); gm ++ )
    {
        IAnimatedMesh* mesh = readStaticMesh( gm );
        if(mesh)
            (void)Smgr->addAnimatedMeshSceneNode( mesh,  parent );
    }

    return parent;
}

but doesn't work, 'cause the getChildren retrieve a MeshNode and not AnimatedMeshNode

No, it does not.

IAnimatedMeshSceneNode::getChildren() returns core::list<ISceneNode*>&, not any form of "MeshNode". You presumably already know this, because you're using an appropriate iterator.