.dif Dynamic Placement

#1 It's easy to place buildings using the World Editor (and you're running around the map), or are you talking about creating buildings like with the Cube Engine?

#2 You can create a new interior object the same way you create any other object

%newCell = new InteriorInstance() {
	interiorFile = "~/data/interiors/whatever.dif";
};

The only problem is they will be all black. Unless you place them when the map is loaded before the re-light process like i'm doing for my rpg.

#3 The interiors will only be black if you do not use Quark lights. I made an interior with lights around the outside of the dif, and it was lit up without having to do a full relight. The only thing missing was the shadow on the terrain.

There was a problem when I did this a long time ago (it may have been fixed). The textures weren't being loaded properly, and I found a line somewhere in the code that only loaded (or something) the textures if the mission editor was running. There's a code block that starts with if(gEditingMission) { ... but there are probably at least a few of those. All I did was make that code execute whether editing the mission or not, and it worked.

#4 Thanks for the replies.

Once I've created the InteriorInstance (as above), how do I go about placing it in the game world? I saw that there is a setPosition function in the SceneObject.cc, but I wasn't sure how to access this. Plus, it takes a Point3f, and I wasn't sure how to create that.

Thanks again for any help.

#5 Set the position when you create it. ie,

%newCell = new InteriorInstance() {
   interiorFile = "~/data/interiors/whatever.dif";
   position = "2 3 4";
}

#6 Is possible to unload or remove the interior as well?