Parent an entity to two parents

[Laurens]

Hi,

 

Is it possible to have two seperate entities and parent a third entity to both of these entities? Like so:

 

Parent       Parent
  |           |
   -- Child --

 

Thanks!

[Mumbles]

Directly, I don't think so. Closest I can think of is this:

 Parent                 Parent
    |                     |
-- Child -- --joint-- -- Child --

 

(and just hide the child on the right)

[Shard]

Hi,

 

Is it possible to have two seperate entities and parent a third entity to both of these entities? Like so:

 

Parent       Parent
  |           |
   -- Child --

 

Thanks!

 

 

Can I ask what you would be applying this in?

[Josh]

Like the Highlander, there can only be one (parent).

[Laurens]

Was afraid so.

 

Basically I have two independent towers that are connected by a beam (plane with a texture). Now, if either one of the towers is destroyed, so should the beam. I was planning on parenting the beam to both towers and then when either tower is destroyed, FreeEntity would also free the beam.

 

Anyway, guess I'll have to find some other way then

 

Thanks everyone!

[ArBuZ]

Maybe SetEntityTarget() will be suitable for this. Also as I remember it automatically handles deleted entities. So if you delete the tower and the beam, GetEntityTarget() of the second tower will return NULL.

[Laurens]

I have not yet seen this command but if the index parameter means I can store multiple targets than this would indeed solve my problem. I would simply set the target for the beam to both towers and check for NULL through GetEntityTarget each update call. That would be awesome

 

Will try it out as soon as I get home.

 

Thanks!

[Rick]

You could make this Beam an object and have a pointer to it in each tower. Then when you create a Beam object assign it the to towers that make the connection. Then when your Tower object is destroyed check if the Beam object it has is null and if not destroy it also.

[ZioRed]

Cannot you just set the beam as parent of both towers and free it when the last tower is freed?

[Laurens]

Hi all,

 

I finally went with SetEntityTarget. The constructor of Beam sets the target to both Towers that are passed via parameters. Then, in the Update() method I check GetEntityTarget for NULL. If either is NULL, the Beam frees itself.

 

Thanks for the help all!

 

Cheers!