Shaun Shepherd wrote:
>
> I am trying to get a flt file I have loaded to be in more than one location
> in my scene. There needs to be many of them so I'm currently using a loop.
This sounds like a very inefficient way of doing things. If I read what
you are saying correctly, you are loading the same file many times, each
time with a different transform group above it. Is that correct?
If so, no wonder you are running out of memory. What you want to do is
load it once, then place the entire scene graph into a shared group and
then use transforms above the SharedGroup.
Roughly here is what you would do in psuedo code:
Loader ldr = new FLTLoader();
Scene scn = ldr.load("myfile");
SharedGroup sgrp = new SharedGroup();
sgrp.addChild(scn.getSceneGroup());
BranchGroup my_world = new BranchGroup();
for(i = 0; i < num_places; i++)
{
Transform3D t3d = new Transform3D(x, y, z);
Transform tx = new Transform(t3d);
Link lnk = new Link(sgrp);
tx.addChild(lnk);
my_world.addChild(tx);
}
This should save you an awful lot of memory and make the startup *much*
quicker.
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