Horde3D

I'm probably missing something obvious here, but why there is no API to set global transformation?
Does it mean, if i want to drive my physics transformations by physics engine, i have manually reverse transformations like:
world (from physics engine) -> parent(*) -> local and then set local in horde?

Doesn't it make sense to just insert every mesh as children of root, and don't care about this scene graph thingy anymore?
I don't know the answer, because i still didn't dive too much into horde3d source code, and it's not obvious for me since i still feel incompetent in graphics programming (i wish i had more time ).

So, how do you drive your physics transformations with horde3d (assuming you're simulating your world with help of it) ?

You can set the absolute transformation matrix through h3dSetNodeTransMat. I use it in my engine without problems. Just be sure that whatever matrix you get from your physics engine will work with OpenGL (column major versus row major, etc...)

Thanks for answer!
So, http://www.horde3d.org/docs/html/_api.html#h3dSetNodeTransMat which describes h3dSetNodeTransMat as

is wrong?

If it is, someone with svn access should update description because it might be confusing for noobs like me.

No it's not wrong. It sets the relative transformation matrix based on the scene graph hierarchy. If you don't have a hierarchy it's basically the same as an absolute matrix. But in general it's always relative to it's parent node.

Oh, i thought scene graph is generally used for deep hierarchies rather than root -> model -> joints.
Thanks for answer.