Whats the proper way to register a custom Node method?

Hi i tried to register some of my nodes’ functions but when i try to call them from the script the game crashes :

I register it like this : (The INFPlayer is a derived class from INFNode which is derived from Urho3d::Node)

After this i register a global function called getCurrentPlayer() which returns an INFPlayer pointer

But whenever i try to call this function from the script the game crashes.I’m pretty sure i’m missing something… So whats the proper way of registering a custom Node ?

If i register Urho3d::Application static functions it works fine , the crash happens only with Nodes

You should not subclass Node, but just create new components. Subclassing Node will bite you in the ass when you try to load/save or network synchronize the scene and it doesn’t know to create the custom nodes on the opposite side.

Hi Cadaver ! And thanks for the quick reply ! I have my own save/load mechanism so i wont use those , neither the networking part .The game has an extremely large level(s) so i can’t load it at once , therefore i split them into segment chunks.
The point of subclassing the Node is simply having a “Recursive” access to the scene graph structure.This works very well so far , and i have really clean code thanks to this.

e.g a simple call to a someSegment->build() builds the segment.All child nodes in the segment will call their build() functions recirsively and do their job.

Using components would really mess things up since they are not recursive , so i would need to code some kind of a Component Graph to have a component child parent structure to keep track of the whole scene structure.Not to mention is still need Nodes in the scene to use these components

I still can expose some global functions from my Urho3d::Application and use those if Custom Node registration is not possible , but it would be really useful
Thanks

EDIT Don’t get me wrong i found the Component system very useful in lot of situations ! Like a MuzzleFlash component or a CharacterController component ! Makes c++ as you write scripts it’s very convenient ! but in this situation i would rather go with subclassing (if possible ofcourse)

Thank you very much for the help ! It works perfectly now .