Changing model during run time?

[BrianATSI]

Sounds like you've found a bug, removing the mesh should work. We only added removeUnusedMeshes for people who have a huge scene and wanted to clear down their cache (it removes all meshes with a reference count of 1, ie, those which belong only to the mesh cache).

If the size of the mesh cache doesn't change after doing

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smgr->getMeshCache()->removeMesh(mesh1); 

then that must be a bug!

I have had similar issues. I think I found the problem, but not sure how I should approach the fix.

->removeMesh(mesh);

I drill down to the code in trace and notice it does a compare like this...

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if (Meshes[i].Mesh && Meshes[i].Mesh->getMesh(0) == mesh)
		{
			Meshes[i].Mesh->drop();
			Meshes.erase(i);
			return;
		}

The problem is that it compares an IMesh* to the first frame of an SAnimatedMesh so it never removes the mesh, the address of the IMesh* and the pointer to the first frame of the SAnimatedMesh seems to be different. Does the mesh cache only contain SAnimatedMesh meshes?

[bitplane]

No, the mesh cache can also contain other types of animated meshes.

I guess that this wrong usage anyway, trying to remove a mesh from the mesh cache but actually using the pointer to animMesh->getMesh(0) rather than the original animated mesh pointer. Perhaps not a bug after all, maybe a doc update is needed to prevent other people from making this mistake.

[BrianATSI]

No, the mesh cache can also contain other types of animated meshes.

I guess that this wrong usage anyway, trying to remove a mesh from the mesh cache but actually using the pointer to animMesh->getMesh(0) rather than the original animated mesh pointer. Perhaps not a bug after all, maybe a doc update is needed to prevent other people from making this mistake.

So what would be proper way? If all I have is a pointer to an IMesh then I can't do ->removeMesh(imesh->getMesh(0)); because that function is only for SAnimatedMesh. Does CMeshCache not contain SMesh meshes?
I would have to recast based on mesh type, right?