[Resolved] setShapeName Fail and Workaround
by Steve Acaster · in Torque 3D Professional · 07/17/2009 (7:11 pm) · 7 replies
SetShapeName appears not to set the shape's name anymore.
%player.setShapeName(hero); will do nothing (core/scripts/client/spawn.cs), nor will it function in-game through the console when called on a playerID.
SetName does work however, both in the spawnscript and in the calling of the playerID.
Resolved, no issue in the first place.
%player.setShapeName(hero); will do nothing (core/scripts/client/spawn.cs), nor will it function in-game through the console when called on a playerID.
3455.setshapename(hero); //fail
SetName does work however, both in the spawnscript and in the calling of the playerID.
3455.setname(hero); //win
Resolved, no issue in the first place.
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#2
Just tried an "unmolested" NewProject, from the console 2769.setShapeName(bob);
Console says it's mapping it to a string but neither player's data in editor pane nor player object 2769:(null); updates.
2769.setname(bob); updates both selectd player object info in world and in the name field of player data in editor.
07/18/2009 (7:14 am)
Really? Are using FPSkit?Just tried an "unmolested" NewProject, from the console 2769.setShapeName(bob);
Console says it's mapping it to a string but neither player's data in editor pane nor player object 2769:(null); updates.
2769.setname(bob); updates both selectd player object info in world and in the name field of player data in editor.
#3
setName is the object Name -- a usable identifier -- that's what you see in the object info and the name field in the editor. You can use this name to access a named object, just like you can with the objID. setShapeName is a "dynamic" (too inebriated to think of a more proper word here) name and doesn't really do anything useful -- it's a nametag on a shirt -- which is why it get's passed the client's "Name" (from the "Join Server" screen). It's not meant to be actively accessed, but can be used to show names/description for objects while in gameplay.
setShapeName() also requires that the GuiShapeNameHud be active in your playGui, and it isn't in the Template -- thus it doesn't do anything useful there. The FPSkit is my "template" (how'd you guess? ;D), GuiShapeNameHud is used, that's why it works for me.
07/18/2009 (8:14 am)
Ahh! They're two different things, setName() and setShapeName() -- I should have remembered that before. setShapeName() also requires that the GuiShapeNameHud be active in your playGui, and it isn't in the Template -- thus it doesn't do anything useful there. The FPSkit is my "template" (how'd you guess? ;D), GuiShapeNameHud is used, that's why it works for me.
#4
My previsou comments in the spawn script explain this to me, I didn't see them when porting.
Doh!
(I blame last night's unnatural sobriety...)
07/18/2009 (8:50 am)
Disregard.My previsou comments in the spawn script explain this to me, I didn't see them when porting.
Doh!
(I blame last night's unnatural sobriety...)
#5
08/01/2009 (1:24 pm)
What's the console method for showing the player/object's name above it's shape? I thought it used to be NickName.... but can't seem to find it anywhere.
#6
%player.setShapeName(%name);
but I'm not sure it's auto hooked up to display anymore.
08/01/2009 (1:35 pm)
Technically/Historically:%player.setShapeName(%name);
but I'm not sure it's auto hooked up to display anymore.
#7
08/02/2009 (12:19 pm)
setShapeName() will work. But in order to see it displayed on the screen you need to have a GuiShapeNameHud ctrl attached to your playGui -- in Torque3D only the FPS Genre Kit has a GuiShapeNameHud. 
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