How to set an MD2 animation when...

[Anteater]

Hi. I'm trying to set the MD2 animation of an AnimatedMeshSceneNode, however it's being returned as a regular scene node (see below). However, this is causing a compile error when said node's MD2 animation is set because it's not returned as animated. Is there any workaround? I'm using non-SVN Irrlicht 1.1.

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for(nowid = 256; nowid < enid; nowid++)
     {
            
            ISceneNode* nowNode = smgr->getSceneNodeFromId(nowid);
            if (nowNode->isVisible() == true)
            {
               
				   vector3df campos1 = lex->getPosition();
                    vector3df pos = nowNode->getPosition();
                   vector3df rot = nowNode->getRotation();
                   f32 rotrad = rot.Y * PI / 180;  
                   pos.Z += delta * 0.2f * cos(rotrad);
                   pos.X += delta * 0.2f * sin(rotrad);
                   nowNode->setPosition(pos);
                   nowNode->setRotation(rot);
               
               
				   if(pos.getDistanceFrom(lex->getPosition()) < 64)
               {
				   
				   
                             //this is the line of code that doesn't work:

                             nowNode->setMD2Animation("attack");
                             

hp = hp - (0.01 * delta);
							 mhp = mhp + (0.0001 * delta);
                             
               }
               

[r-type]

just cast it to a IAnimatedMeshSceneNode

[varnie]

by the way...
why there's no getMD2Animation() method in Irrlicht in spite of a fact that there's setMD2Animation() one? i know, that it takes a few minutes to add currentAnimationState variable which will come in help when time has come to change node's current animation state. ( we don't want to change animation state on the same which is currently, right? that's the reason of all this discuss ).
but in any case i thought, why Irrlichht doesn't have getMD2Animation()?
just interesting..

[bitplane]

I would guess this is because setMD2Animation is ugliness to begin with, and adding getMD2Animation would mean breaking even more people's code when it's eventually removed!

[JP]

Maybe this would be of use Varnie:

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/docu/cl ... _m_d2.html