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How to get "name" of a SceneObject?

by Edward Rotberg · in Torque 3D Professional · 12/31/2009 (2:51 pm) · 3 replies

Hi,

I've created a custom class that is a SceneObject and has a custom RenderDelegate. I would like to instantiate more than one of these objects from the World Editor, but at OnAdd() time, I would need to be able to differentiate between individual instances of these objects, so that I could load unique data for each instance. To my knowledge, the only unique data that I would have at OnAdd() time is the name of the object that you give it in the World Editor when placing it into your level. How can I get this name at or before OnAdd() time?

Alternatively, should I be sub-classing something other that SceneObject, perhaps another sub-class of SceneObject that has the functionality that I need?

Thanks in advance,

= Ed =
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Torque 3D Owner Edward Rotberg
#1
12/31/2009 (3:26 pm)
To answer my own question, it looks like getOriginalName() should work to get me the name assigned via the World Editor. From there, if we impose a naming convention, I can load appropriate data. Alternatively, I suppose I can just subclass my object...

= Ed =

Associate James Ford
Sickhead Games
#2
01/04/2010 (10:17 pm)
Or use the ( script ) class name, or add a new type string field, etc.

Torque 3D Owner Pat Wilson
#3
01/05/2010 (2:55 pm)
It should be noted that the name of an object may not be transmitted from server to client. So as long as all scripts depending on a name are executed on the server, that is not a problem, otherwise you are going to need to pack up the name and send it across to clients.