Hide parent but not its children

[AggrorJorn]

I have a mesh placeholder that I drag in my scene. The placeholder loads several other models that are parented to the main model.

 

When I try to hide the main model it also hides it's children.

 

function class:CreateObject(model)
local object=self.super:CreateObject(model)

self.modelA = LoadModel("abstract::modelA.gmf")
self.modelA:SetParent(object.model)	
object.model:Hide()
--self.modelA:Show()

Does anybody know how to show a child while the parent remains hidden.

[ZioRed]

From wiki:

Hiding is recursive; If an entity is hidden, all its children will be as well.

 

So I suppose you can only hide the model and then cycle through each of its children and manually Show them.

[Flexman]

I don't think you can get around it. We ran into a similar need and got around it by having two meshes. Swapping them in/out was quite fast (same model with bits chopped out using same materials). Not quite the same thing as yours though.

 

Perhaps you could paint the parent entity with the "invisible" material when you want to hide it, and paint it with it's normal material when you want to display it again.

 

PaintEntity(entity,"abstract::invisible.mat",0)

 

Where 0 means "non recursive".

 

??

 

Just a thought.

[AggrorJorn]

Thanks for your answers. It seems that using a simple show command for the children wont work. I will try the invisible material way. thanks.

[AggrorJorn]

I did not know that there was an invisible material! I thought you guys ment a black texture that then uses alpha rendering. this works great.