Ogre dotScene saving

Question

I'm making a video game using Ogre3d. I load the .scene file with the most recent tinyxml dotscene loader. Now I want to save the modified scene back to the .scene file. Can someone give me an example or an hint on how to do that?

Answer 1

You need to code the exact reverse process:

1. Loop over all relevant scene objects and for each one add the needed TiXmlElements to a TiXmlDocument.
2. At the end, save out the TiXmlDocument.

This TinyXml Tutorial shows the needed code parts in terms of XML generation.

A real-world example is Ogitor (an WYSIWYG Ogre editor), where each editor object has a method TiXmlElement* CXXXEditor::exportDotScene(TiXmlElement *pParent) that moves all relevant attributes/states into the TinyXml structures before it then gets saved into a file.