how do you actually attach weapon to the ms3d model?

cdi · Post by **cdi** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 5:32 pm

Can someone teach me how to attach a ms3d weapon model to the ms3d model using the irrlicht engine? assuming i have the models and the skeletal ready.

Thank you in advance

saigumi · Post by **saigumi** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 5:50 pm

Straight from the help file -

virtual ISceneNode* irr::scene::IAnimatedMeshSceneNode::getMS3DJointNode ( const c8 * jointName ) [pure virtual]

Returns a pointer to a child node, wich has the same transformation as the corrsesponding joint, if the mesh in this scene node is a ms3d mesh. Otherwise 0 is returned. With this method it is possible to attach scene nodes to joints more easily. In this way, it is for example possible to attach a weapon to the left hand of an animated model. This example shows how:

ISceneNode* hand =
yourMS3DAnimatedMeshSceneNode->getMS3DJointNode("LeftHand");
hand->addChild(weaponSceneNode);

Please note that the SceneNode returned by this method may not exist before this call and is created by it.
Parameters:
jointName: Name of the joint.

Returns:
Returns a pointer to the scene node which represents the joint with the specified name. Returns 0 if the contained mesh is not an ms3d mesh or the name of the joint could not be found.