preventing models from being captured by camera

bloodrush · July 31, 2009, 5:32pm

Hi Everyone!

I don’t know how else to put this into words but, is there a method available to the camera (or display region) class that can prevent certain models that were specified from being rendered?

Hope you could help me here.

Thanks!

LoneKiltedNinja · July 31, 2009, 5:40pm

Read the manual sections on bitmasks and hide()/show() visibility. Long story short: you can set any subset of nodes to be visible to any subset of cameras.

rdb · July 31, 2009, 5:42pm

You can call nodePath.hide() to hide a model from being rendered.

You can also set a camera mask on the camera using cameranode.setCameraMask, and then use the same mask as parameter to nodePath.hide(mask).

Nemesis_13 · July 31, 2009, 9:50pm

see hide() and stash() methods of NodePath

this video also nicely shows such fundamentals of panda: video.google.com/videoplay?docid … 3215&hl=en

bloodrush · August 1, 2009, 5:30pm

The camera masking and selective hiding worked perfectly. Thank you so much!