All NIF objects inherit from \ref NiObject so a good place to start would be understanding the methods of that class.
You can access the member functions of any class through a Ref smart pointer of the right type by using the -> operator. In Python you can simply use the dot (.) operator.
You can access the member functions of any class through a Ref smart pointer of the right type by using the -> operator. In Python you will need to use the Ptr() function as an intermediary between a smart reference and the object that it holds, like so:
\code
//C++
niNode->GetChildren;
#Python
niNode.Ptr().GetChildren()
\endcode
If you have a Ref of one type, such as a generic NiObjectRef, and you want to know if the object it points to also inherits from the NiNode class, you use the \ref DynamicCast template function. To cast from a NiObjectRef to a NiNodeRef, you would do the following:
