A nodekit that is used for creating nodekit hierarchies. OIV.Inventor.Nodekits.SoSeparatorKit contains a transform part, a childList part, and a few others in its catalog. The transform part (an OIV.Inventor.Nodes.SoTransform node) affects all of the children in the childList. Each of these children must be an OIV.Inventor.Nodekits.SoSeparatorKit or from a class that is derived from OIV.Inventor.Nodekits.SoSeparatorKit (e.g., OIV.Inventor.Nodekits.SoShapeKit and OIV.Inventor.Nodekits.SoWrapperKit). Since all members of the childList are in turn SoSeparatorKits, and each contains a transform , these nested lists allow you to create a hierarchy of motion, in which each transform affects an entire subgraph of nodekits.

The other parts added to the catalog for the OIV.Inventor.Nodekits.SoSeparatorKit are pickStyle , appearance , units and texture2Transform . Furthermore, since OIV.Inventor.Nodes.SoSeparator is derived from OIV.Inventor.Nodekits.SoBaseKit, it inherits the callbackList part. This is a list of OIV.Inventor.Nodes.SoCallback and/or OIV.Inventor.Nodes.SoEventCallback nodes which enable the OIV.Inventor.Nodekits.SoSeparatorKit to perform special callbacks whenever an action is applied to it.

By creating the pickStyle part, a user can alter the pick style for the entire nodekit hierarchy. The appearance part is an OIV.Inventor.Nodekits.SoAppearanceKit nodekit. Note that all parts contained in the OIV.Inventor.Nodekits.SoAppearanceKit catalog can be accessed as if they were part of the OIV.Inventor.Nodekits.SoSeparatorKit.

See OIV.Inventor.Nodekits.SoBaseKit for further explanation.

PARTS

(OIV.Inventor.Nodes.SoPickStyle) pickStyle An OIV.Inventor.Nodes.SoPickStyle property node that can be used to set the picking style of its children. This part is NULL by default, but is created automatically if necessary.

(OIV.Inventor.Nodekits.SoAppearanceKit) appearance An OIV.Inventor.Nodekits.SoAppearanceKit nodekit which can be used to set the appearance properties of its children. This part is NULL by default, but is created automatically if necessary.

(OIV.Inventor.Nodes.SoUnits) units An OIV.Inventor.Nodes.SoUnits node which can be used to set the types of units, (e.g., feet), of its children. This part is NULL by default, but is created automatically if necessary.

(OIV.Inventor.Nodes.SoTransform) transform An OIV.Inventor.Nodes.SoTransform node which can be used to set the overall position, orientation, and scale of its children. This part is NULL by default, but is created automatically if necessary.

(OIV.Inventor.Nodes.SoTexture2Transform) texture2Transform An OIV.Inventor.Nodes.SoTexture2Transform node which can be used to apply a transformation to any textures used by its children. This part is NULL by default, but is created automatically if necessary.

(OIV.Inventor.Nodekits.SoNodeKitListPart) childList This part contains the children nodekits of this OIV.Inventor.Nodekits.SoSeparatorKit. This part is a list part and can have multiple children. This part is NULL by default, but is created automatically when the first child is added to the childList. Also, when asked to build a member of the childList, the separatorKit will build an OIV.Inventor.Nodekits.SoShapeKit by default. So if the childList part is NULL, and you call: getPart("childList[0]", true), the separator kit will create the childList and add an OIV.Inventor.Nodekits.SoShapeKit as the new element in the list.

FILE FORMAT/DEFAULT

SeparatorKit {

boundingBoxCaching	AUTO
renderCulling	AUTO
pickCulling	AUTO
callbackList	NULL
pickStyle	NULL
appearance	NULL
units	NULL
transform	NULL
texture2Transform	NULL
childList	NULL

}

CATALOG PARTS

All Parts

Part Name	Part Type	Default Type	NULL Default
callbackList	NodeKitListPart		yes
pickStyle	PickStyle		yes
appearance	AppearanceKit		yes
units	Units		yes
transform	Transform		yes
texture2Transform	Texture2Transform		yes
childList	NodeKitListPart		yes

Extra Information for List Parts from Above Table

Part Name	Container Type	Possible Types
callbackList	Separator	Callback, EventCallback

Reference