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Thu, 10 Apr 2008, 11:32
Orion Pax	Ok. I have several different types of types in my game....HEHE. I have one for players...lasers....stars...planets....asteroids...and probably many more. My question, Is there a way to determine if a pickedentity() from camerapick command is part of one of those TYPES with out iterating through them? I just need to know if it belongs to my PLAYERTYPE or PLANETTYPE or ASTEROIDTYPE. Not specifically which one, just need to know what group.
Thu, 10 Apr 2008, 13:02
Forklift_Fred	How about EntityName()? When you assign an entity to a PLAYERTYPE for example, use NameEntity(entity,"PLAYER") then when you have picked it, use something like If EntityName(PickedEntity()) = "PLAYER" etc to check through the different types of types rather than go through all the individual entities. Not sure if you can use the same name twice or not but you'd only need a global entity counter to append a number to the name and just check the first 6 characters for example... Just a thought. May not be the best solution but it sounds plausible Another thought would be to use EntityType() and GetEntityType() but if you are using collissions it might complicate matters there. -=-=- Come rain or shine...
Thu, 10 Apr 2008, 13:32
Orion Pax	WOoohooo...it worked....nameentity that is. It will reuse the same name over and over. Thanks for the help!
Thu, 10 Apr 2008, 14:22
Orion Pax	Eh that wont work. For some reason its not giving me the name of the PICKEDENTITY() with entityname(). Apparently its 2 separate entities.....or something...either way its not working...looks like I will have to iterate through the types.
Thu, 10 Apr 2008, 15:55
Forklift_Fred	Hmmm... I've played with the example for PickedEntity() and it is doing what I expected... Quite simply in this case it's turning the alpha down to 0.5 Obviously you'll need to change the textures to an image you have... ; PickedEntity Example ; -------------------- Graphics3D 640,480,0,2 SetBuffer BackBuffer() Type cubes Field mesh Field name End Type camera=CreateCamera() PositionEntity camera,0,2,-10 light=CreateLight() RotateEntity light,90,0,0 plane=CreatePlane() EntityPickMode plane,2 ; Make the plane entity 'pickable'. Use pick_geometry mode no.2 for polygon collision. ground_tex=LoadTexture("image1.png") EntityTexture plane,ground_tex NameEntity plane,"Plane" For n=1 To 20 cube.cubes=New cubes cube\mesh=CreateCube() EntityPickMode cube\mesh,2 ; Make the cube entity 'pickable'. Use pick_geometry mode no.2 for polygon collision. cube_tex=LoadTexture("image2.png") EntityTexture cube\mesh,cube_tex PositionEntity cube\mesh,Rnd(-25,25),Rnd(0,10),Rnd(-25,25) NameEntity cube\mesh,"Cube" Next While Not KeyDown( 1 ) If KeyDown( 205 )=True Then TurnEntity camera,0,-1,0 If KeyDown( 203 )=True Then TurnEntity camera,0,1,0 If KeyDown( 208 )=True Then MoveEntity camera,0,0,-0.05 If KeyDown( 200 )=True Then MoveEntity camera,0,0,0.05 ; If left mouse button hit then use CameraPick with mouse coordinates ; In this example, only three things can be picked: the plane, the cube, or nothing If MouseHit(1)=True Then CameraPick(camera,MouseX(),MouseY()) If PickedEntity() Then EntityAlpha PickedEntity(),0.5 End If RenderWorld Text 0,0,"Use cursor keys to move about" Text 0,20,"Press left mouse button to use CameraPick with mouse coordinates" Text 0,40,"PickedX: "+PickedX#() Text 0,60,"PickedY: "+PickedY#() Text 0,80,"PickedZ: "+PickedZ#() Text 0,100,"PickedNX: "+PickedNX#() Text 0,120,"PickedNY: "+PickedNY#() Text 0,140,"PickedNZ: "+PickedNZ#() Text 0,160,"PickedTime: "+PickedTime#() If PickedEntity() Then Text 0,180,"PickedEntity: "+EntityName(PickedEntity()) Text 0,200,"PickedSurface: "+PickedSurface() Text 0,220,"PickedTriangle: "+PickedTriangle() Flip Wend End --v -=-=- Come rain or shine...
Sun, 13 Apr 2008, 14:18
Orion Pax	Another question about types....I konw that you can quickly save the data in types to a file with STR$(TYPENAME). Is there a quick and dirty way to transfer that info (Eg [2,3,4,D,0] ) into another type? Like transfering data over the internet and putting it into your types automatically? If not then I will have to iterate through each and look for comma's and brackets.....