Giving mesh children

[kennetpostigo]

Hi, i'm new too R3F, and I was following some threejs tutorials while using R3F, but there was a portion of the tutorial that I couldn't get working in R3F the same way it would be done in threejs.

That was adding other meshes to existing meshes

sunMesh.add(earthMesh)

I couldn't get a nested mesh to render within another mesh directly, so what I ended up doing was:

<group>
  // Sun mesh
  <mesh>...</mesh>
  // Earth mesh
  <mesh>...</mesh>
</group>

Is it possible to put 1 mesh with geometry and material as a child of another mesh with geometry and material in R3F?

[drcmda]

yes, meshes are also just object3ds, you can nest them as deeply as you like https://codesandbox.io/s/r3f-basic-demo-bllyk if it works in threejs, it must work with r3f.

im guessing you just dropped something and it didnt show, that's probably because both meshes were at the same spot.

[kennetpostigo]

Thank you!

[DavidNaMills]

@drcmda thanks.