Node appears for an instant

Gatekeeper · Post by **Gatekeeper** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:41 pm

Hey,
I've got a little graphical glitch in my game, I'm not sure why or how. It's not making it unplayable, it's just annoying me.

Basically, I have a big scene node that is an arrow, and I hover this above players to show they are selected. When the game loads I load this arrow, set its visibility to false and set its position to (0,0,0).

When a person is selected I then (in this order) set the arrow node's parent to the person and set the visibility to true.

This causes the arrow node to briefly display (probably only 1 frame) at position (0,0,0), and after that it shows above the person as you would expect.

I guess I probably could set the arrow's initial position to somewhere off the screen, but that wouldn't really fix the underlying problem, and I'm afraid I'm going to encounter this problem the further I get into my 3d animations.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:58 pm

You have to call updateAbsolutePosition first to update the position before first render.

maverickbu · Post by **maverickbu** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:19 am

Thanks for the tip hybrid, saved me a headache.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 8:24 am

I hope you did not have headache all the time until now