deleting nodepaths

Scripting Issues
1

Is there an easy way to delete a nodepath but still use the variable with another?

This does not seem to work:

def deleteGeometry(self):
		self.coll_node.removeNode()
		self.back_node.removeNode()
		self.coll_node = NodePath(PandaNode('collision'))
		self.back_node = NodePath(PandaNode('regular'))
		self.coll_node.reparentTo(render)
		self.back_node.reparentTo(render)
2

That should certainly work. Python always allows you to completely redefine any variable, so when you reassign self.coll_node and self.back_node, it’s completely irrelevant what values they had before.

In what way is it not working?

David

3

In my code these are actually geomNodes, but they do not get deleted when this function is called…I then write the new geomData, but then both meshes are being rendered.

edit: I found the problem, I was forgetting to release the nodes from the list of all the geomnodes I created for testing purposes :smiley: