How to make more than one clone

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Hey again!!

https://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#HTWJPL#5

This is my PG…asked this before but figured out how to clone. Now the issue is making more than one clone. How to create 2 more houses if possible?

Thank ya :relaxed:

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Make a house building function that creates (or clones) the relevant meshes and parents each house mesh part to a common transform node, then simply call that house building function multiple times in a loop with different arguments e.g. house position etc.

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Something like this (based on your PG) https://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#HTWJPL#7

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Thank ya so very much @inteja this helps alot :green_heart:

I thought that all I had to do was just clone each mesh and number it(box1, box2, etc) never thought about doing a loop. Dont think I saw that within the Clone reading documentation. Also didn’t know there was a house template.

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There wouldn’t be anything in the docs about using loops for this purpose as it’s a general programming language feature, not specific to Babylon.js.

Also, there is no “house template” - that’s just what I called it in the example PG. In your use-case it helped to have some hidden meshes (walls and roof) that I called a “template”, that could be cloned in the buildHouse() function. It keeps the code inside the function cleaner, as we’re just cloning known, existing meshes then enabling the clones.

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Sorry to wreck your brain but have to ask :grin:

I want to make sure that each house has a different texture so would that be possible with the PG edits you did? Even though mines is extremely simple I thought it would probably be easier to add various materials/textures so each one would be unique. Yours made me think of using an instance moreso than clone.

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You would need to use clones (copies) rather than instances if you want separate materials/textures.

In the buildHouse() function you could just add another argument “textureUrl” then inside the function, create a new material and texture with this URL.

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