Re: [Plib-users] Identifying objects after loading an AC3D- modell

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Michael Wessels wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am building my modells with AC3D. How can I identify in my c-code different objects of an AC3D-modell after loading it with ssgLoadAC ?

I attach a comment to the model in AC3D.

You can tell the PLIB loaders to call a callback function in the application when they find a comment field.
They then hand you the responsibility of allocating that node in the scene graph - so you can make it be
a ssgTransform node instead of a regular ssgBranch.

In order to avoid actual comments in the '.ac' file triggering this, I put an unusual/distinctive
character or string at the beginning of the comment.

Beware though - the AC3D modeller has a tendancy to rearrange your model tree - and in the process
it tends to delete the comments.

Best advice is to build the model, get it looking completely right - and only add the magic comments
at the very end.

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