ColladaLoader instance nodes imported with names like 'instance_0'

[shelbyspeegle]

Description of the problem

After the replacement of ColladaLoader with ColladaLoader2 (now named just ColladaLoader), it looks like the imported information has changed a little bit.

heres a (condensed) snippet of my dae.

<library_nodes>
  <node id="ID3" name="Element_entry-door-handle">
    <node id="ID47" name="instance_3">
      </matrix>
      <instance_node url="#ID48" />
    </node>
  </node>
  <node id="ID48" name="Anchor">
    </instance_geometry>
  </node>
</library_nodes>

the behavior that i used to see was that the imported dae object would look like this:

scene.children[0] = [
  {
    name: 'Element_entry-door-handle',
    children: [
      {
        name: 'Anchor'
      }
    ]
  }
]

now it is looking like this:

scene.children[0] = [
  {
    name: 'instance_0',
    children: [
      {
        name: 'instance_3'
      }
    ]
  }
]

is this the expected output? on one hand i see at as incorrect because of how ColladaLoader used to work, but on the other hand i see it as correct because it matches how the dae is represented.

i am able to achieve what i need by doing a search through library.nodes and marrying the 'instance' up with its original definition and getting that name.

would you accept a PR if i ensure that instance nodes are coming through with their definitions name rather than 'instance_0', 'instance_1' etc?

i'll work on putting together a jsfiddle and updating this issue once complete.

Three.js version

• Dev
• r90
• r88

Browser

• All of them
• Chrome
• Firefox
• Internet Explorer

OS

• All of them
• Windows
• macOS
• Linux
• Android
• iOS

Hardware Requirements (graphics card, VR Device, ...)

[Mugen87]

i'll work on putting together a jsfiddle and updating this issue once complete.

👍

[shelbyspeegle]

alright i am super close, i just need a way of referencing the previous version of ColladaLoader.js in the demo to show the old functionality.

i have logging in the console to show the part of the scene that has the instance_0 name. here is the demo: http://jsfiddle.net/zhpv6pn6/7/.

you can find my dae at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shelbyspeegle/threejs-13365/master/source-model.dae.

[Mugen87]

Can you please check what happens if you change the following line of code to:

if ( object.name === '' ) object.name = ( type === 'JOINT' ) ? data.sid : data.name;

Does this change improve the names of your scene graph elements?

[shelbyspeegle]

yes! thanks for the line number too! passing all my tests now without special lookup against library nodes 👍

[Mugen87]

Do you wanna make a PR with the change? I think we can put this in ColladaLoader.

[shelbyspeegle]

sure!