[Libpapyrus-users] Having copies/clones of objects in the canvas

[Julius Z. <zi...@mr...>]

Hello list,

many 3d scene graph libraries I worked with allowed diamond shaped scene 
graphs, so that one group of objects can be reached via multiple pathes 
(containing different transformations), leading to effectively having 
multiple "clones" of a group in the scene.

As far as I understand, papyrus cannot support this, since there is only 
one parent group in every Drawable.

Is there an alternative way of producing clones or (deep) copies of 
parts of the scene graph? Papyrus::Drawable::clone() looks like a 
candidate, but I cannot figure out how to use it. Is it meant for other 
than internal library use? How are the policies for copy constructors of 
Drawables in papyrus?

Any help is appreciated,
Julius