Irrlicht custom animated scene node?

[danielmccarthy]

Hi,

Firstly I would have posted this in the Irrlicht forums but I think their registration system is broken.

I am creating a 3d game with the irrlicht engine and I am having trouble creating a custom IAnimatedMeshSceneNode. I extend the IAnimatedMeshSceneNode but it basically wants me to rewrite everything because all of the virtual functions are pure... Does anyone know how to make a custom IAnimatedMeshSceneNode. The reason I need this is because when you use the ray in irrlicht it returns a pointer to an ISceneNode so if I had something like this

class Player
{
  public IAnimatedMeshSceneNode* node;
  struct equipment
  {
  ......
  } equipment;
};

the ray in the irrlicht engine would only return the pointer to the node so I can't access any of the players equipment... this is not idle at all so I need to create a custom scene node does anyone know of any functions that can draw the mesh rather than having to draw all the triangles yourself... again I need to extend the scene node I don't know another way around this but if anyone else does then feel free to share. Please don't say modify the engine their are better ways around this.