Re: static setBound on a pfNode

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From: Gordon Tomlinson (gordon++at++paradigmsim.com)
Date: 04/24/2000 15:32:22

Hi There

 
> My reason for using the static bounds was to avoid the overhead of
> propagating the changes up the scene graph. Since my data can be fairly
> dynamic, I thought having a DYNAMIC bounds might carry a fair amount of
> overhead. Maybe I'm wrong here.

Ok you can set ti staic first but when it does change you have set it to
Dynamic, it will only then cause a propogation when you change the geometry

>
> I still think if I explicitly change a static bounding sphere on a node it
> should propagate the change up the scene graph.

NO static bounding does not propagate only Dynamic.

>
> Mark Acosta
> Magic Earth LLC
>

[snip 

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Gordon.

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