Accessing a method from another component

#1 Are you doing something like this in the movement component?

DrumComponent dc = objectWithDrumComponent.Components.FindComponent<DrumComponent>();

dc.SomePublicMethod();

If both components are on the same object, you could say...

DrumComponent dc = Owner.Components.FindComponent<DrumComponent>();

dc.SomePublicMethod();

#2 Thanks Joshua this seems like it will help me a lot but I can't test it because both components are not on the same object. I figured I would use

T2DSceneGraph.Instance.FindObjects()

to find the closest object. Only T2DSceneGraph now contains no Instance. I have this working fine in the airplane tutorial, and they both have the same using directives. I might suspect that it was changed with the update if not for it working fine in another project. I'll keep trying to figure out what's going on.

#3 Ahh, sorry I haven't had any experience with the beta yet.

#4 Well I looked in the API and it doesn't seem like it has been updated yet (atleast not for this method). I think that it works in the airplane tutorial because I haven't converted it.

#5 Yes, 1.5 added the ability to have multiple scenegraphs (which is cool) but we didn't update the docs to reflect this (not so cool).

T2DSceneObjects now have a SceneGraph property that you can use to find the scenegraph that an object is in.

#6 Thanks Dan that helped me out immensely. This is working now:

private void AttackInit()
        {
            List<ISceneContainerObject> Drums = new List<ISceneContainerObject>();
            T2DSceneGraph sg = (T2DSceneGraph)_sceneObject.SceneGraph;
            sg.FindObjects(_sceneObject.Position, 20, TorqueObjectType.AllObjects, 0xFFFFFFF, Drums);
            foreach (T2DSceneObject Drum in Drums)
            {
                DrumComponent dc = Drum.Components.FindComponent<DrumComponent>();
                dc.Attack();
            }
        }

I bind this method to the spacebar and it calls the method that is in the drum component.