Irrlicht Engine

i have an array of animated mesh to control then but i want to know if i can do some kind of cast or something to put a billboard into the array for example

array[0] = IAnimatedMeshSceneNode
array[1] = IBillBoardSceneNode

is there any way to do that

Just use core::array<scene::ISceneNode*> to store the objects. You need a cast when accessing special functions of the scene node types, though. Otherwise you can only use the basic ISceneNode methods.

thats will be helpful but can you give me an example of a cast that you toldme

I'm stupid, but I'd say one of these..

static_cast<specialclassname>(object)
dynamic_cast<specialclassname>(object)
reinterpret_cast<specialclassname>(object)

whats the different between all of them

/shrug

I don't know, all I know is that that may work or it may not.

static_cast will work in most cases. If you have RTTI enabled you can use dynamic_cast instead, in order to have safe casts (will return 0 if you cast to the wrong types). Moreover, dynamic_cast is also necessary when upcasting from multi-inherited classes. reinterpret_cast is only necessary when casting structures without changing the underlying bit-level content. Mostly necessary for byte streams and C-style arrays.

well i did it in other way taking what you say as base first a declare a ISceneNode* array[64];

Oh, I said it that way. But you should better get used to core::array (or std::vector) very soon. Will make your life easier.