Cloning items in one glb

Questions
1

I have a large ‘library’ of models in one glb (let’s pretend it’s a bunch of trees for example named tree1, tree2, tree3, tree4 all of which are just a collection of meshes) which is loaded using “LoadAssetContainer”.

I want to then programmatically create a forest of trees using assets cloned out of the container, what would be the correct workflow to do this? Effectively I suppose doing some kind of filtered instantiateModelsToScene call? Not quite sure where to look on this one.

2

I think I may have answered my own question, it looks like I use clone on the transform nodes in the AssetContainer to make copies of each individual item as many times as I like.

3

What I do is pick out the mesh I want and then just clone it:

    let source_mesh = this.scene.getMeshByName(original_mesh_name);
    let cloned_mesh = source_mesh.clone(props.id); //clone the mesh using the clone name
4

that’s only possible if the assets from the container have been added to the scene though isn’t it?

5

instantiateModelsToScene might come handy as well

6

Here’s a PG with instantiateModels

But @Greg_Findon, seems like your’e wanting to load up the GLB and then only render certain objects to screen? I haven’t seen that done (not to say it can’t be!). But maybe possible to instantiate everything but only make visible those that you want.