Toggling Mesh Visibility

[dmogilevsky]

Hello,

I am using GoKi to make a 3D model viewer. My models consist of many different meshes and I wish to toggle the visibility of specific meshes such that I can hide/show parts of my models at will. Are there any ways to do this within the GoKi framework? Currently I am trying to accomplish this by deleting the meshes from the scene each time and then reading them back in from the file when I want to hide/show them, but I haven't gotten this to work yet.

Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks,
Daniel

[rcoreilly]

There is a gi.Node flag Invisible which when set will make that Node (either a gi3d.Group or gi3d.Solid) invisible. You can do this interactively in gi3dviewer by loading an obj, clicking on Edit Scene button, editing the Children of the scene, and then selecting GoGiEditor on the first child -- this brings up a tree view of the whole loaded object structure -- then scroll the Flag field until you get to Invisible, toggle it, and then click Update on the scene dialog.

Programmatically, you can just call SetInvisible() or ClearInvisible() on any node.

Hope that helps.

• Randy