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How do I set a object name for a object that is created at runtime.

by Brian Westgate · in Technical Issues · 01/10/2011 (8:49 pm) · 2 replies

I'm looking to gain access to the player object that is created in the fps template (player giadon of DefaultPlayerBase). I can only get access during run time via the console, but I want to gain access to him before that so I can create scripts involving him. Since he is created somehow at run time I am having trouble finding a way to place him in my custom sim group I made for future access. Through debugging I found that when he is created he is placed in the MissionCleanup group. I can gain access to him using this group at run time, but since he isn't created with a name I have to rely on his ID to remove him and place him in another group for future use. This ID changes depending on the objects in the map so I don't believe it is a reliable way to always get access. Is there a way so I can make the giadon player object of the fps spawn with a name or is there a global player variable I'm unaware of that will give me access to the player object. I've already tried adding name = "x"; & name = x; to the datablock and he still doesn't spawn with a name. I've tried quite a few different things with no solution. Hopefully someone else can help me solve this. Thanks.
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Torque Owner Brian Westgate
#1
01/11/2011 (2:32 am)
Figured it out. I took a round about way of doing it but here is my solution. In PlayGui::onWake(%this) located in /scripts/gui/playGui.cs I put a call to a function I had created called playerGroupFindPlayer(). This function searches through the MissionCleanup sim for an object that has the same datablock name as the player (In the template it is "DefaultPlayerData". Once the object is found it is then added to my PlayerGroup sim so I can access it easily. Here is my code.

function PlayGui::onWake(%this)
{
   // Turn off any shell sounds...
   // sfxStop( ... );

   $enableDirectInput = "1";
   activateDirectInput();

   // Message hud dialog
   Canvas.pushDialog( MainChatHud );
   Canvas.pushDialog( gStart );
   chatHud.attach(HudMessageVector);

   // just update the action map here
   moveMap.push();

   // hack city - these controls are floating around and need to be clamped
   schedule(0, 0, "refreshCenterTextCtrl");
   schedule(0, 0, "refreshBottomTextCtrl");
   playerGroupFindPlayer(); // Find player in MissionCleanup and add to PlayerGroupSim

}
function playerGroupFindPlayer()
{
 for(%i = 0; %i < MissionCleanup.getCount(); %i++)
 {
   %id = MissionCleanup.getObject(%i).getID();
   if(%id.getDataBlock().name $= "DefaultPlayerData")
   {
      PlayerGroup.add(MissionCleanup.getObject(%i));
   }
       
 }
}

Don't forgot though to put the player object back into the MissionCleanup group so it can be cleaned up properly.

Torque Owner Ivan Mandzhukov
Liman3D
#2
01/11/2011 (6:24 pm)
The player is a control object.
You can gain access to it via the game connection.