Set that appearance to all the children of that node

The bounding box of this node IMPORTANT: Do not modify it unless you perfectly know what you are doing

The bounding sphere of this node IMPORTANT: Do not modify it unless you perfectly know what you are doing

The broadcaster

The broadcaster is used to send events to listeners.
This property is a BubbleEventBroadcaster.

This property set the cache status of the current node. IMPORTANT Currently this property isn't used!

This property represent the culling state of the current node. This state is defined during the culling phasis as it refers to the position of the object against the viewing frustum.

Change the backface culling state to all the shapes objects in the children list

Enable event handling to all the children objects that can broadcast bubbling events

Change the interactivity of all the children

Name of this node. Of no name is specified, the unique ID of the node will be used

The parent node of this node.

The reference is null if this nod has no parent (for exemple for a root node).

Reference to the scene is it linked to. Initialized at null.

Make all the Shape3D and descendants children react to this value.

Specify the visibility of this node. If true, the node is visible, if fase, it will not be displayed.

Creates a node in the object tree of the world.

This constructor should normally not be called directly, only from a sub class.

Adds a new child to this node.

A node can have several children, and when you add a child to a node, it is automatically connected to the parent node through its parent property.

Adds a listener for the specified event.

Tests this node against the frustum volume to get its visibility.

If the node and its children aren't in the frustum, the node is set to cull and will not be displayed.

The method also updates the bounding volumes, to make a more accurate culling system possible.
First the bounding sphere is updated, and if intersecting, the bounding box is updated to perform a more precise culling.

[MANDATORY] The update method must be called first!

Delete this node and all its child nodes.

This node nad all its child nodes are deleted, including all data they are storing.
The method makes recursive calls to the destroy method of the child nodes.

Returns the child node with the specified name.

Tests if this node has a parent.

Tests if the node passed in the argument is parent of this node.

Performs an operation on this node and all of its children.

Traverses the subtree made up of this node and all of its children. While traversing the subtree, individual operations are performed on entry and exit of each node of the subtree.

Implements the visitor design pattern: Using the visitor design pattern, you can define a new operation on Node and its subclasses without having to change the classes and without having to take care of traversing the node tree.

       var mySpecialOperation:SpecialOperation = new SpecialOperation;
   
       mySpecialOperation.someParameter = 0.8;
       someTreeNode.perform(mySpecialOperation);
       trace(mySpecialOperation.someResult);
   
       mySpecialOperation.someParameter = 0.2;
       someOtherTreeNode.perform(mySpecialOperation);
       trace(mySpecialOperation.someResult);
   

Removes this node from the node tree, saving its child nodes.

NOTE that remove method only remove the current node and NOT its children!
To remove the current node and all its children please refer to the destroy method.

The child nodes of this node becomes child nodes of this node's parent.

Removes the child node with the specified name.

All children of the node you want to remove are lost.
The link between them and the rest of the tree is broken, and they will not be rendered anymore!

The object itself and its children are still in memory!
If you want to free them completely, call child.destroy()

Removes a listener for the specified event.

Renders this node.

Overridden in sub classes

Moves this node to another parent node.

This node is removed from its current parent node, and added as a child of the specified node

Returns a string representation of this object

Updates this node.

For a node with transformation, this method update the transformation taking into account the matrix cache system.

The children of this node are stored inside this array. IMPORTANT: Use this property mainly as READ ONLY. To add, delete or search a specific child, you can use the specific method to do that

The unique id of this node in the node graph.

This value is very useful to retrieve a specific node.

Cached matrix corresponding to the transformation to the 0,0,0 frame system

Cached matrix corresponding to the transformation to the camera frame system