Simple Question of Node Translation

Troubleshooting General Help
1

I was trying to transalte my Node t to (0,3,0). But no matter how I try, the box always stay at (0,0,0);

Geometry box=makebox();
Node t=new Node(“t”);
rootNode.attachChild(t);
t.setLocalTranslation(new Vector3f(0,3,0));
t.attachChild(box1);

Any ideas?

2

How do you know?

I can assure you that it doesn’t… presuming the code above is all that’s running.

You can see this by System.out.println(box.getWorldTranslation());

3

Most likely because you want to translate the Geometry “box” but you have attached the Geometry “box1” to your Node.

4

Nice catch man

5

Then what he wrote is confusing… because he describes exactly moving the node and expecting the child box to move… which it will.

Emphasis added by me:

…but the box does not stay at 0,0,0 unless he’s looking at the local translation… which is dumb/newbish/whatever because of course local translation won’t change. But that’s why I asked how he knew and suggested the world translation.

I suspect a trip through this is necessary but I can’t tell until OP responds with what’s really going on:
https://jmonkeyengine.github.io/wiki/tutorials/scenegraph/assets/fallback/index.html