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Old 10-18-2013, 01:19 AM
mape2k mape2k is offline
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Getting position of a group of objects

Hello all,

I am trying to get the position of a group of objects (a tent composed out of small objects) in Vizard. I have read through the Hierarchical model tutorial and all is well, but it only explains how to get positions of single child objects. Here, a handle is grabbed to the object GEODE.
But for a group of object, I cannot create that handle because there is no geode. How can I export the model so that Vizard can grab a handle to the whole object and not just its lowest nodes? Below is an image of the coordinates I got in the Inspector. I need to get the position of the object 'tent' that is composed out of different smaller objects. Ironically, the inspector displays the right coordinates (marked with the red error)! Now I just need to be able to get them with the viz.getPosition() command. Any ideas?


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Old 10-24-2013, 11:51 PM
mape2k mape2k is offline
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For each group of objects, I create a small sphere in the center of the group of objects. I grabbed the sphere handle in Vizard and could get their position.

However, this is very tedious with a lot of objects. Is there no other way?
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Old 10-31-2013, 08:33 AM
farshizzo farshizzo is offline
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You can use the node.getMatrix command to get the transform of a sub-node. In your specific example, you could retrieve the tent position displayed in Inspector using the following code:
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pos =  model.getMatrix(viz.ABS_GLOBAL,node='tent').getPosition()
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