From: Gordon Tomlinson (gordon++at++paradigmsim.com)
Date: 04/24/2000 12:43:15
Hi
Yes this is normal for static, it means just that.
this geometry is static and will not change.
You use the PFBOUND_DYNAMIC and NOT the PFBOUND_STATIC
"Acosta, Mark W [Magic Earth LLC]" wrote:
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> So you mean do something like this?
>
> geode->setBound (bsphere,PFBOUND_DYNAMIC);
> geode->setBound (bsphere,PFBOUND_STATIC);
>
> Is it normal for static bounds to not propagate up the scene graph or is
> this a "feature"?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark Acosta
> Magic Earth LLC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Furtaw
> To: Acosta, Mark W [Magic Earth LLC]
> Cc: 'info-performer++at++sgi.com '
> Sent: 4/24/00 1:29 PM
> Subject: Re: static setBound on a pfNode
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> It looks like you need to set the mode to PFBOUND_DYNAMIC then setBound
> to a new bsphere to have it propagate up the chain.
>
> Brian
>
> "Acosta, Mark W [Magic Earth LLC]" wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I have several places in my scene where I do a
> setBound(bsphere,
> > PFBOUND_STATIC) on Geodes that contain GeoSets with dynamically
> changing
> > geometry. The first time I do this, everything works fine. If I change
> the
> > bounding sphere later on (making it much bigger) I've found that
> Performer
> > doesn't propagate the change up the scene graph which screws up my
> picking.
> > I dumped out the scene graph to verify this. This doesn't seem right
> to me.
> > Is there some way to force the recomputation of the bounds in the
> scene
> > graph?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mark Acosta
> > Magic Earth LLC
> >
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