get object on mouse click

[Batigol]

Hi all,

I'm very new with Vizard.
I'm trying to get object on mouse click. But I just get to root object viz.VizChild(1) not the subobject like c1,c2....
The viz.pick(info=True).name just return the name of material not object name.
How could I access to subobject?

[farshizzo]

You can use the node.getChild command to get a handle to a sub-node. Example:

slider = viz.addChild('sodoku.ive')
c2 = slider.getChild('c2')
.
.
.
obj = viz.pick()
if obj == c2:
    print 'c2 picked'

[Batigol]

I already tried it. It worked.
But it is so strange to compare with other game engine
Anyway, thanks for your comments

[JvdBosch]

Originally Posted by farshizzo

You can use the node.getChild command to get a handle to a sub-node. Example:

slider = viz.addChild('sodoku.ive')
c2 = slider.getChild('c2')
.
.
.
obj = viz.pick()
if obj == c2:
    print 'c2 picked'

This works fine, but introduces extra drawables in the scene. With large scenes this can hurt the framerate. Is there no other way to do this? Maybe it can be on the wish-list for the next update?

[farshizzo]

Calling getChild should not introduce more drawables. Can you post an example where it does?

This is already a feature in the upcoming Vizard 5 release. You will be able to get access to the full node hierarchy of the intersection.

[Batigol]

Originally Posted by farshizzo

Calling getChild should not introduce more drawables. Can you post an example where it does?

This is already a feature in the upcoming Vizard 5 release. You will be able to get access to the full node hierarchy of the intersection.

It's sound great