Picking objects not work with param includeEntities about xeokit-sdk HOT 4 CLOSED

Yeah this isn't even implemented within the renderer (Renderer.js), yet it's still documented on the Scene.pick method.

To mask which objects get picked, the best way, before picking, would be for application code to

1.save which scene objects are not pickable
2. iterate over the scene objects and set pickable true on those objects that you want to pick, and false for others
3. do the pick
4. restore the state saved in (1)

The thing is, setting pickable on all scene objects could be expensive for big models, if done continuously, on each pick, if continuously picking,

Therefore I think it's best to put that in the hands of the application code, which might set those pickable flags one time before doing many of picking operations, and then restore those pickable flags after all the picking is finished.

Then I would remove the includeEntities parameter from Scene.pick() documentation.

Does that make sense?

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1.save which scene objects are not pickable

What mean save scene? Iterate objecst and set pickable to false/true on load model, this is only one way?

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1.Record the IDs of all objects for which pickable is false
2. Iterate over all objects and set pickable false on the ones you dont want to pick, and true on the ones you do want to pick
3. do the pick, or many picks
4. iterate over all objects, set pickable true, except for the ones whose IDs you recorded in (1), which you set false

Because xeokit relies on batching the objects in order to achieve performance rendering for large numbers of objects, we must enable/disable picking for the objects like this. It's a performance trade off we can't avoid.

(1-2) is setting up for masked picking, (4) is cleaning up after masked picking.

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Removed includeEntities and excludeEntities from documentation - they were not supposed to be there: 535130c

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