Re: Performer Cloned Instancing
John Rohlf (jrohlf++at++tubes)
Fri, 23 Dec 94 10:06:03 PST
>
> Hi,
>
> I built a model whit MultiGen V.11.
> In this model some objects are instanced more times.
> As you know, when the loader encounters one instance reference bead,
> it make a cloning operation.
> Now, I need to move at run-time some parts of these cloned instances,
> one instance independently from each other.
> In other words, I need to find the specific instance that I have
> to move, and his dynamic parts.
>
>
> The question is:
> How can I find the groups to move ?
> I couldn't find the names of the MultiGen groups that represent
> the instance, even in disabling the scene tree optimization in the loader.
In 1.2, you need to rename the root of the cloned subgraph.
Then you can use a pathname to fine nodes underneath the clone,
e.g., pfFind("cloned/part");
Note that the next release of Performer will contain friendlier
database access routines to make this kind of thing trivial.
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