GetClass

[Gabriel]

Hello World ;-)

 

What the equivalent function of getClass from LUA in C++

Thank

 

Gabriel

[TheoLogic]

There is none. What do you want to do?

[Gabriel]

Hello

 

if KeyHit(KEY_E)==1 then
	pick=CameraPick(camera,Vec3(GraphicsWidth()/2,GraphicsHeight()/2,2.0),0,0)
	if pick~=nil then
		repeat
			if pick.entity:GetClass()==ENTITY_MODEL then
				break
			end
			pick.entity=pick.entity.parent
		until pick.entity==nil
		if pick.entity~=nil then
			pick.entity:SendMessage("use",controller,0)
		end
	end
end

 

make same of this code in C++, but i cannot find in documentation this function GetClass() in prototype.header

 

Thank

[Roland]

int GetEntityType(TEntity entity);

 

Types are

ENTITY_MESH

ENTITY_EMITTER

ENTITY_MODEL

ENTITY_BODY

ENTITY_TERRAIN

ENTITY_BONE

ENTITY_CAMERA

ENTITY_CORONA

ENTITY_SPOTLIGHT

ENTITY_LISTENER

ENTITY_PIVOT

ENTITY_MESHLAYER

ENTITY_POINTLIGHT

ENTITY_DIRECTIONALLIGHT

ENTITY_VEGETATION

ENTITY_CONTROLLER

ENTITY_ALL

ENTITY_RENDERABLE

[Gabriel]

Thanks, Merci ;-)

[macklebee]

has this been changed recently? as GetEntityType() previously returned the collision type not the entity class...

[Roland]

has this been changed recently? as GetEntityType() previously returned the collision type not the enity class...

Damn. I missed that. He wants the type of object and not the collisiontype. How really clumpsy of me ...,. Sorry. Forget my answer ....

 

Maybe this would work then

 

str GetEntityKey( entity, "class" );

 

At least the class is given in the map file (.sbx) like this

 

Model {
path="rimfrost_characters_celly.gmf"
position=-433.687561,218.907288,-729.854370
rotation=-0.000000000,-0.000000000,0.000000000
scale=1.00000000,1.00000000,1.00000000
id=271943592

"class"="Model"
"name"="celly"
}

 

a call would return "Model" as result

[macklebee]

if he is just wanting the model, i think he should be able to simply use what Chris Paulson used and what I had just posted last week here:

TBody GetMeshModel(TEntity entity) 
{ 
       std::string classname; 
       while (entity!=0) 
       { 
               classname=GetEntityKey(entity,"class"); 
               if (classname=="Model") 
               { 
                       return entity; 
               } 
               entity=GetParent(entity); 
       } 
       return 0; 
}

 

EDIT - I see you edited your response before I finished posting - but yes, that should basically work as it appears it worked for Chris and paratoxic...

[Roland]

Haha.. you were 2 seconds faster than me mackelbee

[Gabriel]

there is no access to this information faster than this method?

Handling a string and a callback is a bit heavy as the process, right?

TEntity what is it? other than a pointer, of course ^ ^

it points to a structure? I think hard enough that this information is not available elsewhere as a callback, I know that the processor is more powerful, it's still not a reason build cycle that could be used elsewhere.

 

Am I wrong?

 

Gabriel