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[ChrisE]

So, suppose that I've gotten a populated scene graph, and need to fetch a node back. I've got the original TransformGroup or Shape3D that I added to my root Branch Graph, but I would like to know how to remove that from the scene graph.

I was going to do this in a ScheduledOperation, of course, but beyond that is there a searching or removal method that I can use? Or do I have to use the findAll methods with a name?

In general, in fact, should I be trying to give unique names to all my nodes?

-Chris

[ChrisE]

Oh, and another question: The scene-graph is read-only threadsafe, right? Or is it completely not threadsafe?

EDIT: And should I call node.detach(), or BranchGroup.removeChild(node)?

[Marvin Fröhlich]

You'll either have to use one of the find methods to find your node or store a reference to the node somewhere to directly reference it. You should do the latter, if you can.

It's up to you, whether to give your nodes unique names.

The scenegraph is read-only thread safe except for the transformation matrices (and some other "meta" data, which are recalculated by the rendering thread, if they need to be.

node.detach() is nothing by an alias for removeChild() on the parent group.

Marvin

[ChrisE]

So, I can just pass the node I have a reference to into a scheduled operation to have it call its own detach method from within the correct thread context (just making sure)?

[Marvin Fröhlich]

yes