Ogre 3D 1.7

Time for action — creating a scene node with Ogre 3D

We are going to use the code from Chapter 1, Installing Ogre 3D modify it to create a new scene node, and attach it to the scene. We will follow these steps:

1. In the old version of our code, we had the following two lines in the createScene() function:

   Ogre::Entity* ent = mSceneMgr->createEntity("MyEntity","Sinbad.mesh");
   mSceneMgr->getRootSceneNode()->attachObject(ent);
   

2. Replace the last line with the following:

   Ogre::SceneNode* node = mSceneMgr->createSceneNode("Node1");
   

3. Then add the following two lines; the order of those two lines is irrelevant for the resulting scene:

   mSceneMgr->getRootSceneNode()->addChild(node);
   node->attachObject(ent);
   

4. Compile and start the application.
5. You should see the ...