with out %this how can there be that?

#1 I think i may have solved it, use castCollsion? so i know the object I am bumping into but there is a problem as i need the collision to have a beginning and an ending. so i can see when it starts and stops.

#2 actually scrap that. I think I need to know more about groups. So sim sets etc. its just to do what I want requires a lot of lines of code.

#3 Actually I have just found a real patch solution, but I think simSets and how to make using mass amounts of objects much more flexible as each time I multiplied the number of objects, say enemy 1 test. then it worked so I did enemy 1, 2 and 3 each had there own objects,
but anyhow, I hope you get the picture, it got complicated.


anyhow, back to work! This project should be done in the next few weeks, so any one interested, I will keep you posted.

#4 or maybe I just didn't map it out properly, any how its all in the works. I still need to know the answer to the original question, if that makes sense, please help in pretains to onCollision and the lack of %this, so I think I need how I can better pass object info from a collision.

view plainprint?
function cyberTronBehavior::onCollision(%srcObject, %dstObject, %srcRef, %dstRef, %time, %normal, %contacts, %points)  
{  
    ///cyberTron Objects  
    if(%dstObject.class $= "tileClass")  
    {  
        if(isObject(%srcObject.tracer1)  
        {  
            %srcObject.setTrailer1Pos();  
        }  
    }  
}  
  
function cyberTronBehavior::setTrailer1Pos(%this, %dstObject)  
{  
    %this.cTTrailer1.setPosition(%dstObject.position);  
}

#5 %srcObject is the object that just got its onCollision() method triggered. So you can use "%srcObject" as you would "%this".

Also in your code above I think your missing a parameter in your setTrailer1Pos() method:

%srcObject.setTrailer1Pos();

Should probably be:

%srcObject.setTrailer1Pos(%dstObject);

Just thought that might help some problems you are having.

#6 yes. ok, i was just trying something "funky" to lighten a load so to speak, I have already gone about it the original way, but ok, the %src is %this essentially helps.

thanks.

#7 @Kenneth, or anyone else.
I understand %srcObject = %this, essentially but what does %dstObject =?

As in

if(%dstObject.class $= "tileClass")
%srcObject.doThis();

how can I mark that object?
as I have many objects in that class.

#8 %dstObject is simply the object that has collided with %srcObject.

You can use %dstObject in the same way you use %srcObject or "%this".

This is perfectly acceptable code:

if(%dstObject.class $= "tileClass")  
%srcObject.doThis();

#9 right,
but in

function doThis()
{
///how do I make sure THAT PARTICULAR %dstObject is called, or passed into here?
}

that is my conundrum.