Getting size of node

Troubleshooting General Help
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Hi,



How do I get the size (x,y,z) of a Node?

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Nodes don’t have a size… they have children. You can get how many children with Quantity… they have a world translation which you can get as well getWorldTranslation… they also have a bounding volume (if their children do) which you can get with getWorldBounds.

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What do you mean by size?

4

Thanks for the quick reply allthough I’m afraid I don’t quiet understand. I get my Node from loading a ms3d model.



I don’t want to get the quantity of children, just the spatial x,y,z size… It’s for creating a “dummy box” to add to the ode physics system.



Thanks

5

Getting the worldBounds as Cep suggests would be your best bet. Nodes are abstract things… they do not represent physical objects in the world as Geometry (TriMesh) do.

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The world bounds would be your best bet then. The Node of the model is a containment of all the "pieces" of the model. That is, a model is commonly made up of multiple TriMeshes, and the Node is the container for all these pieces. The world bounds will contain all the meshes.

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To get the "size" you need to get the bounding volume with getWorldBounds. The bounding volume returns ether a box or a Sphere that surrounds the geometry of a node. You can you this information with ode.

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Load the node with property “bound”,“box” so it uses bounding boxes. Get the node’s world bound and cast it to a bounding box. Check that bounding box for the center and extents

9

Ok, so is:


node.setWorldBound( new BoundingBox() );
node.updateWorldBound();



equivalent to loading the model with the "bound","box" property?
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No. Users should never ever use the function setWorldBound. It’s an internal thing

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Model bound is what you manually set (in some cases) world bound is calculated by the scene graph every update. World bounds are created from a merging of multiple model bounds.

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Love how the developers are so quick on the draw here that you get 3 similar answers in a 5 minute span. XD

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Ah, ok I see, but when loading a model like this:


converter.setProperty("bound","box");
converter.convert(model.openStream(),BO);
node = jbr.loadBinaryFormat(
      new ByteArrayInputStream(BO.toByteArray()));



Gettings the world bound seems to return null :?


BoundingBox playerBox = (BoundingBox)node.getWorldBound();

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It requires at least one call to updateGeometricState or updateWorldBounds if you just need the bounds. This is because the bounds are generated after the scene graph is built.



EDIT: Don’t use updateWorldBounds… my mistake.

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Call updateGeometricState (0,true) then get the world bound. That will tell it to buidl the world bound.

16

It still returns null :frowning:

17

No sorry, when using updateGeometricState(0,true) instead of updateWorldBound() it worked.



Thanks!

18

Yeah, I didn’t get my “edit” in on my post in time.

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It seems to be returning a BoundingSphere though, and when trying to cast it into a BoundingBox I get a ClassCastException.

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You have to load it as a BoundingBox "bound","box"