Accessing the name of a "Child"

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Hosh	(Posted 2008) [#1]

Is there any way to find the name of "child" in a model using BlitzBasic code (rather than looking it up in the modeling program)?

I can get a handle using

GetChild(parent entity, index#)

or

FindChild ( entity,child_name$ )

But I can't get a name. The problem seems to be that a "child" is not considered to be an entity.

Can you rename a child? Or is all the naming confined to the modeling program?

;--------------------
;EXAMPLE CODE
plane=LoadAnimMesh("ship.3ds", pivot)  
NameEntity(plane, "ship")                      

While Not KeyDown( 1 )
{
current_child_handle = GetChild(plane,count) 
current_child_name$ = EntityName (current_child_handle)
...  ;; ERROR HERE

This code returns an error "Entity does not exist." Obviously because a child is not an entity.

Stevie G

(Posted 2008) [#2]

You aren't setting the 'count' variable to anything so it's 0 by default so this is expected. It should be at least 1. You may also want to check there are children by making sure countchildren( plane ) > 0

Stevie

Hosh	(Posted 2008) [#3]

Yeah, that's better. Thanks Stevie!

nawi	(Posted 2008) [#4]

Function PrintChildren(Entity,estr$="")
	Print estr$+EntityName$(Entity)
	For t=1 To CountChildren(Entity)
		PrintChildren(GetChild(Entity,t),estr$+EntityName$(Entity)+"->")
	Next
End Function