Expanded Child features

[Einlander]

I'm trying to make a Level of detail system, and i found that I can not hide children from a parent. I would like to suggest the ability to hide a child Ie: child:Hide() This would hide the child and leave the childs' children with the same properties (i hide a child and it's children is still visible.). Also the ability to hide all of a childs children ie: child:Hide(True). This would hide a child and all it's children, but leave its' parents alone.

 

 

My experiments with children

 

Attach this to the parent:

function Script:Start()
self.entity:Hide()
rotation = Vec3(0,0,45)
print(self.entity:CountChildren())

local child = self.entity:GetChild(0)
print(child:CountChildren())
print(child:GetPosition():ToString())

local child1  = child:GetChild(0)
print(child1:CountChildren())
print(child1:GetPosition():ToString())

child1:SetRotation(rotation) -- to check if we are actually manipulating the child of a child

child1:Hide() -- the rotated csg should diassapear
end

 

Results:

[macklebee]

i found that I can not hide children from a parent.

 

you are supposed to be able to hide children and hide the parent + children.

 

EDIT3 --yeah its strange whats happening because it looks like the hierarchy is being broken, but the problem is being caused by the csg brushes being optimized into a singular mesh. If memory serves, you can fix that by either adding a mass to each csg brush or an empty script and then it wont happen.