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Problem making muliple objects (Register object failed?

by Nic Biondi · in Torque Game Engine · 01/24/2004 (1:52 am) · 4 replies

I get a "Register object failed for object flag of type Static...?" error when trying to create a second object, in this case a flag.Im assuming that this is either a:

1) reference issue.(trying to reference the same object twice), or a
2) hierarchy issue.(I don't quite understand the instantial flow yet)

I am only a couple weeks old here, so the chance of me making a stupid mistake is high. The code is called when I hit a button (t) and it spawns a flag on the ground. The functionality seems to work well, but only for the first object. All subsequent attempts to place a flag fail, untill the first flag is deleated. Anyway, here is the code that I have written so far:

function serverCmdinteract(%client)
{ 
   //get player position
   %player = %client.player;
   
   %eye = %player.getEyeVector();
   %vec = vectorScale(%eye, 400);

   %startPoint = %player.getEyeTransform();
   %endPoint = VectorAdd(%startPoint,%vec);
   %searchMasks = $TypeMasks::TerrainObjectType;

   //cast ray
   %object = ContainerRayCast(%startPoint,%endPoint,%searchMasks, %player); 
   
   if(%object)
   {
     //get surface coords
     echo(">object created>>" @ %x);
     echo(">object created>>" @ %y);
     echo(">object created>>" @ %z);
      
     %item = new StaticShape(Flag)
     {  
       position = localclientconnection.camera.getPosition();
       rotation = "1 0 0 0";
       datablock  = Flag;
     };    
   }
   //set object at coordinates
   %item.setTransform(%x SPC %y SPC %z);
    
}

Any help in this matter would be great. Thanx for the help guys.
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Associate James Urquhart
#1
01/24/2004 (2:06 am)
Nic,

Either :

A) Use a blank name for the StaticShape, aka 
%item = new StaticShape("")

B) Have some sort of counter to make unique object names, e.g 
%item = new StaticShape("Flag" @ %counter)

Hope that helps :)

Torque Owner Nic Biondi
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#2
01/24/2004 (2:31 am)
Thank you james. I see what I am doing now that you have shed some light on my problem. I must be making multiple copies of objects under the same name which is not allowed.
You are a lot of help, thanx.

Associate Ron Yacketta
#3
01/24/2004 (6:08 am)
Does this spit out what you are expecting?

//get surface coords     
echo(">object created>>" @ %x);     
echo(">object created>>" @ %y);     
echo(">object created>>" @ %z);

I am not seeing where the %x,y and z are being set

also this would seem to fail as well
%item.setTransform(%x SPC %y SPC %z);

Torque Owner Nic Biondi
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#4
01/25/2004 (3:58 pm)
Yeah Ron, It does work. I figured out what was happening. I was giving my new object a name when creating it. Since I am using multiple versions of the same block It would crash when I tried to name an object by the same name.

James suggestion A) is what I went with and it works like a charm.

Thank you for your response though Ron, I am always surprised by the helping nature of the members(and associates) here at garage games. Without you guys I would be feeling in the dark.