Creating a mesh out of a hierarchy

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Jeroen

(Posted 2004) [#1]

I'm parsing a B3D file by 'walking' through every child object. What I want to do is "cut" one child out of that hierarchy, and create a new mesh from it.
I don't want to use CopyEntity, I want a new, flattened mesh. How can I do this?

E.g:

B3D:

myEntity
....subEntity1
....subEntity2
....subEntity3
......bone1
......bone2
....light1
....light2

...and then grab 'subEntity1' and place it into a new mesh using something like createMesh()

Thank you

fredborg

(Posted 2004) [#2]

CopyMesh should do it! You may need to use PositionEntity etc. afterwards if you want to retain the location of the copy.

Jeroen

(Posted 2004) [#3]

lol, how dumb :) It's just a command that exists :)

thanks