API Question Is there a way to remove a specific mesh from a vessel?

[jedidia]

I need to remove a specific mesh from a vessel, but the only thing I can find in the API in that direction is to remove all the meshes.

Am I overlooking something? or is the only way to remove a specific mesh to remove them all and re-add the rest again?

---------- Post added at 11:06 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:51 AM ----------

Dang it, I seem to be blind. Now I found the method (DelMesh, obviously). Forgett this post ever existed!

 

[kuddel]

..what post?

 

[francisdrake]

Well, that's normally no problem. Remove all meshes with ClearMeshes(TRUE);
and add again those meshes you would like to show. This happens in the blink of an eye (timestep), so no flickering.

Alternatively you could preload all meshes and just vary the visibility with SetMeshVisibility. Then the unwanted mesh would still be loaded, but invisible.

 

[Hlynkacg]

is the delete mesh function not working for you?

example...

UINT mesh_descentstage = AddMesh (myfolder/descent.msh); // adds mesh to vessel

delMesh (mesh_descentstage) // removes that mesh

NOTE:
Adding and deleting meshes eats up a fair bit of memory for that time step, so if you are going to re-use the mesh it's better to just change it's visibility settings.

 

[N_Molson]

Adding and deleting meshes eats up a fair bit of memory for that time step, so if you are going to re-use the mesh it's better to just change it's visibility settings.

Definitively, loading a mesh during simulation (and its related textures/maps) can cause lags, especially on the low-end configurations. The heaviest the mesh/textures/maps, the worse, of course. So yes, it seems a good idea to apply the "invisibility trick", when re-used. :yes: