RadialCloner

The RadialCloner distributes given meshes in a radial manner. If more than one meshes are provided, then the clones will be placed alternatively. Several parameters controls the position, angle, type and orientation of the clones. The RadialCloner returns an object with one important property: root. It is an invisible mesh, it's the anchor, center and parent of all generated clones. Transforming this root (position/scale/rotation) affects all underlying clones (childs) at once. Most of the input parameters are also available as properties and they are very suitable for animation (tweening). The given input meshes will be made inactive during construction, so after construction there will be only one of two possible mesh types: BABYLON clones or instances.
Note: Input meshes can be BABYLON meshes but other Cloners as well!

Example

Example of a RadialCloner with a count of 24 clones (12 cubes cube1/cube2) distributed aligned with a radius of 6 units in the plane XZ:

var rc = new BABYLONX.RadialCloner([cube1, cube2], demo.scene, {count:24,radius:6});

Transforming of all clones can be done as you would do with a single mesh:

rc.root.scaling.y = 2; rc.root.rotation.x = Math.PI / 4;

Animation can be done via properties:

BABYLON.Animation.CreateAndStartAnimation('radanimation', rc, 'startangle', 30, 120, 0, 90);

Parameters

BABYLONX.RadialCloner( meshes, scene[, {optional parameters}])

Mandatory Parameter	Description
meshes	array of meshes/cloners to be cloned, meshes will be made inactive after construction
scene	BABYLON scene

Optional Parameter	Description	Default Value
count	the nuber of clones	3
radius	radius in world units	3
align	flag if clones are aligned against the middle position of the cloner	true
startangle	angle in degrees	0
endangle	angle in degrees	360
offset	angle in degrees	0
useInstances	flag if clones should be technical "clones" or "instances"	true
plane	object {x,y,z} describing the cloners orientation	{ x: 1, y: 0, z: 1 }

Properties	Description
count	@see Optional Parameter
radius	@see Optional Parameter
align	@see Optional Parameter
startangle	@see Optional Parameter
endangle	@see Optional Parameter
offset	@see Optional Parameter
root	READONLY, getting an invisibe mesh representing the anchor of the cloner (root node)
effectors	READONLY, gets a list of Effectors assigned to this Cloner

Methods	Description
addEffector(effector, sensitivity)	adds an effector to this Cloner and sets the sensitivity (1=full sensitivity, 0=no sensitivity ==ignore effector)
setEnabled(flag)	set the cloner's root node to the state of the flag (true=enabled)