Irrlicht Engine

I was wondering if there was any way to resize an imported mesh inside irrlicht code, e.g. if an object that I have imported was modeled too big and I would like to change its dimensions. Perhaps there is an answer to this in the tutorials, but I haven't found it.

Check out the IMeshManipulator class: http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/docu/cl ... lator.html

Thanks a lot.

You can just do node->setScale(...); as well.

mongoose7 wrote:You can just do node->setScale(...); as well.

This scales the node, not the mesh
He specifically asked to scale the mesh, so in that case you need the mesh manipulator

True, but it wasn't clear to me whether he wanted to resize the mesh or just show the object smaller. Also, I can't think of a reason why one would want to resize a mesh. I suppose you could build a large mesh out of smaller ones, but I don't think anyone does this. Well, there is MindCraft, but it uses internally generated objects.

mongoose7 wrote:True, but it wasn't clear to me whether he wanted to resize the mesh or just show the object smaller. Also, I can't think of a reason why one would want to resize a mesh. I suppose you could build a large mesh out of smaller ones, but I don't think anyone does this. Well, there is MindCraft, but it uses internally generated objects.

Say you have a mesh which has to be used by multiple nodes, and this mesh is somewhat too big (and for some reason you can't/won't edit it to make it smaller) and you want to scale it
In this situation it's easier to scale your mesh instead of scaling each node to get a correct size

Yeah, I was perhaps inaccurate in my original post. I didn't care what I was working with, I just wanted to make the object appear smaller on the scene. node->setScale() also does the job perfectly.