Clearing the MainScene

[miles]

Unfortunately, the project is many large files, so I can't post the whole thing. I can try posting relevant sections, but it would be difficult to get it working isolated.

#loads all environmental objects
class Environment:
def __init__(self, config, link):
self.link = link

#clear the scene
### THIS IS NOT WORKING
#for child in viz.MainScene.getChildren():
# child.remove()

backgroundcolor = config.GetVector('vDisplayBackgroundColor')
viz.clearcolor(backgroundcolor)

self.court = viz.addTexQuad(viz.WORLD, viz.MainScene, 100)
self.court.setEuler(0,90,0)

#grass field
if config.GetBool('bEnvGroundTexture'):
grass = viz.addTexture('res/grass.jpg')
grass.wrap(viz.WRAP_T, viz.REPEAT)
grass.wrap(viz.WRAP_S, viz.REPEAT)
scale = viz.Transform()
scale.setScale(10,10,1)
self.court.texmat(scale)
self.court.texture(grass)
#green plane
else:
self.court.color(0,.3,0)
self.court.disable(viz.LIGHTING)

[farshizzo]

That's the problem with wanting to clear the entire scene, other modules might add their own hidden nodes to the scene which can cause problems when you delete them.

You can keep track of all the nodes you create and delete them individually, as Jeff already suggested.

The approach I would recommend is to create a root group node and add all your objects as children of it. Then you just need to delete the root node and all your objects will be cleared. Here is an example:

# Root node for all objects
root = viz.addGroup()

# Add object underneath root
court = viz.addTexQuad(parent=root)

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# This will delete all the objects added to root
root.remove()