Retrieving scene node count

[VeRtEX]

Hi,

i was wondering if there is a way to get a total scene node count from the scene manager or something? Or is managing the nodes up to the user?

I am asking as i want to implement some kind of level switching and i want to remove all nodes, particle systems, meshes and textures etc. from the current scene before loading the new one and haven't found out yet how to get access to these....and before managing myself i thought to better ask here first .

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

[greenya]

The is no method to get count of scene nodes. And i don't see the point of it, maybe only for statistics.

To calc node count you can go though all child nodes of the root node of scene manager, and then go to their child nodes and so on.
I suggest you to add nodes by layers, so you create so empty node, add to its children some logical group of nodes. Then as you know you can move them at once by moving its the parent, you can control visibility of the group in the same way. And you can remove all this group simply be removing the parent.

Meshes and textures has own managers.

[hendu]

The scene manager does have a clear call to remove all nodes; so do the mesh and texture caches.

[VeRtEX]

Thanks a lot for your replies!

That perfectly helps and works .