EntityName$ behavior
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| I'm new to Blitz3d and I found something interesting with NameEntity & EntityName$. I have the objects, (trees & a building) set for CameraPick and it works well with the mouse. In the case of the trees which are randomly placed, the EntityName$ returned is a eight-digit number(eg. 59992311). The building which I named "Chalet" using NameEntity also comes up as an eight-digit number!! It doesn't use the name which was specifically assigned to it. Any ideas? Sometimes I wish the manual was more detailed! thanks..... |
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| The value returned by CameraPick is the entity handle, to find out that entity's name you then need to call EntityName with this handle ie: entity=CameraPick(cam,MouseX(),MouseY()) If entity<>0 name$=EntityName(entity) |
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| Ok, I'll use that! Thanks Skid... I have to admit this handle issue is something I don't understand yet. |
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| A handle is just something that lets you reference something such as an entity throughout your program. E.g. football=CreateSphere() ; football is the handle EntityColor football,255,0,0 ; make football red! Without the entity handle, you would not be able to make the football red. CreateSphere() EntityColor ????,255,0,0 ; change the color of what?? In terms of whats going on behind the scenes a handle is just an integer that references a part of the computer memory that allows us to access the entity. |
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| Footballs are not spheres!!! |
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 Oh yes they are :) |
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