Getting model / surface information

[Hgawmphdmph]

Hi,

I'm trying to programmatically get model info in lua. I have imported a simple cube model with the same texture on all 6 faces.
In the model editor it is shown as having a single surface, index 0 with the expected material.
However, when I try to access this from code I can't find the surfaces.

In a script attached to the entity I've tried:
    local surfaces = self.entity:CountSurfaces()
and
    local model = tolua.cast(self.entity, "Model")
    local surfaces = model:CountSurfaces()

All of which show indicate there are zero surfaces.

I've scoured the documentation but can't work out what I'm doing wrong.
And ideas?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Josh]

Maybe the model has children that contain the surfaces?

[Hgawmphdmph]

Absolutely spot on, thank you. I hadn't occurred to me that the model would get parented to an empty one when loaded.
I can now find the triangles list and everything.
Is there some way I need to mark this as the right answer like in some other forums?

Thanks again! Really appreciate the help.

[Hgawmphdmph]

I should also mention that looking again in the model editor and even in the scene graph pane in the LW editor, I can now see that I have a "cube" object parented to a STATIC_MESH object, so the fact that the loaded mesh was parented is completely self evident. I just wasn't looking at it properly! Duh!