Detaching children from a node

Troubleshooting graphics
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When you detach a child from a node, does the child spatial stay in memory? I know it does if it saved to a variable, but I have a situation where I have



node.attachChild(sphere.clone());



If I did node.detachAllChildren(), will the instance of “sphere.clone()” be stored in memory still or deleted?



I apologise if this is trivial!



Ed

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Normal java behavior. So you keep the spatial as long as you reference it. If you don’t and detach it then its being GC’d.

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yh, so detach it, and set all references to null