Question! plz help

Question

ok what i tried to do is this, i have a model of a galil
rifle i made, and the model is devided into different elements, i
want to be able to address each element seperatly in the code but i
dont know how to, using the member.model method address the whole
model, another thing i tried to to is to devide the model into
seperate groups in the 3D program and export it as a W3D file, my
plan was to clonemodelfromcastmember them all and put them in a
list, i think it worked fine cuz the put(list) command actually
details all the models in the scene, the problem is that i cant see
anything in the shockwave window itself!
this was kinda hard to explain so il just put the code here
also heres the model and the director file, if anyone wanna
get down and dirty
plz help! thanks!
http://www.planetnana.co.il/pyro-ct/galil.zip
property my,m,mr
property i,e
on tran lis,u,v,w
repeat with i = 1 to count(lis)
lis
.translate(u,v,w)
end repeat
end
on beginsprite me
my = sprite(me.spritenum)
my.member.resetworld()
mr = [] --model resource
m = [:] --models list
e=member("galil").model.count
repeat with i = 1 to e
mr.add (member("galil").modelresource)
m.addprop (#"model "& i , my.member.newmodel("model "
& i , mr
end repeat
put (mr)
put (m)
tran(m,0,0,0)
end

Answer 1

Having looked at your code more closely, your problem appears
to be that you are trying to use a 'model resource' from one scene,
as the resource for a new model in another. Resources can't shared
across 3d cast members like this. To clone a model from one scene
into another (which therefore also clones the model's resource),
you need to use "cloneModelFromCastMember".
Here's how I would modify your code to make it functional
(attached below).
Things to note:
I have called 'preload' on the source scene (the scene we are
cloning
from). Otherwise, because this 3d cast member does not
appear on stage, it won't yet be loaded into ram, and will cause an
error when attempting to clone.
When using cloneModelFromCastmember, you have to specify the
source model by name, so I have added this code to your loop. You
could also use this 'sourceModelName' as the name for each new
model. This way, the models in your destination scene would have
the same names as the models in the source scene, instead of 'model
1' 'model 2' etc.
A couple of small things:
You didn't need to declare 'i' and 'e' as properties, since
you were only using them locally in scope. For example, you didn't
need to remember the values for 'i' and 'e' when the handler
finishes.
Your 'tran' function seems to simply translate a list of
objects, which kind of replicates the purpose of 'group' nodes in
the 3d scene, in a slower fashion. If you want to translate (or
manipulate in any way) a group of models, simply create a group
object (using lingo: newGroup) and set each model's "parent"
property to that group. You can than translate the group and all
objects will move along with it.
hope this helps!
- Ben