From 31ff8123ee4930934e64116f1fc62f9f43995809 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Scheurer <mail@aspepex.net>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 22:14:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Extension SceneNode.ShallowCopy<T>()

---
 src/Engine/Core/Scene/SceneExtensions.cs | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Engine/Core/Scene/SceneExtensions.cs b/src/Engine/Core/Scene/SceneExtensions.cs
index ed46f3cd9..ae373b24f 100644
--- a/src/Engine/Core/Scene/SceneExtensions.cs
+++ b/src/Engine/Core/Scene/SceneExtensions.cs
@@ -544,6 +544,24 @@ public static void FpsView(this Transform tc, float angleHorz, float angleVert,
             tc.Rotation.x = angleVert;
         }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// This creates a shallow copy of this SceneNode with the abillity to be copied into a derived class. It does not connect the resullting copy with this SceneNodes parent.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <typeparam name="TOut">Target type</typeparam>
+        /// <param name="sn"></param>
+        /// <returns></returns>
+        public static TOut ShallowCopy<TOut>(this SceneNode sn)
+            where TOut : SceneNode, new()
+        {
+            TOut tout = new TOut();
+
+            tout.Name = sn.Name;
+            tout.Components = sn.Components;
+            tout.Children = sn.Children;
+
+            return tout;
+        }
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Reference space for rotation.
         /// </summary>