Generically speaking changing the nodes masks is fine its up to you and how your program is using them with-in the confines of how culling, rendering uses them etc.
So no I would says it is not bad practice and is perfectly valid to do Gordon Product Manager 3d __________________________________________________________ Gordon Tomlinson Email : gtomlinson @ overwatch.textron.com __________________________________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: osg-users-boun...@lists.openscenegraph.org [mailto:osg-users-boun...@lists.openscenegraph.org] On Behalf Of brettwiesner Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 12:00 PM To: OpenSceneGraph Users Subject: [osg-users] Is clearing the nodemasks on loaded data a bad practice? Hi, We use nodemasks in our scenegraph to do things like figure out what can be picked, what can be shadowed, etc. When we load data most of the time the nodes come in with masks of 0xffffffff. Occasionally we get an .ive or .osg file that has some other value set in the nodemask. We are going to reset these values under the admonition "it's our scenegraph. we control those bits". If we leave them alone we have to figure out another way to do picking, shadows, etc. So my question... is this bad practice? Thanks, Brett _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.or g _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
