entity name

[Rick]

So I copied the light entity to make a pivot entity. The name property doesn't seem to stick. I set it, click apply, close the properties window, and when I go back in the name is blank again. What needs to happen for these properties to hold their value?

[macklebee]

So I copied the light entity to make a pivot entity. The name property doesn't seem to stick. I set it, click apply, close the properties window, and when I go back in the name is blank again. What needs to happen for these properties to hold their value?

 

when you hit apply you should see the instance of it on the right side of the screen change to that name. It works for me on my custom objects.

[Rick]

worked now. not sure what happened.

[macklebee]

worked now. not sure what happened.

 

you weren't holding your mouth right...

[Rick]

I still have something funky about my custom pivot entity. After the first time I save the scene and close it then reopen no matter where I move it and save the scene again, closing the editor and reopening it the pivot will always go back to where it was originally saved.

[Josh]

Post your script.

[Rick]

I just copied the light and commented the light specific stuff out.

 

dofile("Scripts/base.lua") -- We need the base class entity

function InitDialog(grid)
base_InitDialog(grid)
--group=grid:AddGroup("Light")
--group:AddProperty("Resolution",PROPERTY_CHOICE,"256,512,1024,2048")
--group:AddProperty("linearoffset",PROPERTY_FLOAT,"0,1,2","Linear offset")
--group:AddProperty("multoffset",PROPERTY_FLOAT,"0,1,2","Multiplicative offset")
--group:AddProperty("Range",PROPERTY_FLOAT,"1,100,0")
--group:Expand(1)
end

function Spawn(model)
local entity=base_Spawn(model)
entity.model=model
--entity.light=CreatePointLight(10,model)

entity.pivot = CreatePivot()
return entity
end

function GetKey( model, key, value )
local entity=entitytable[model]
if entity==nil then return value end
if entity.model==nil then return end

return base_GetKey(model,key,value)

--if entity.light==nil then
	--return base_GetKey(model,key,value)
--else
	--if key=="linearoffset" then
	--	return entity.light:GetShadowOffset(0,0)--..","..entity.light:GetShadowOffset(0,1)..","..entity.light:GetShadowOffset(0,2)
	--elseif key=="multoffset" then
	--	return entity.light:GetShadowOffset(1,0)--..","..entity.light:GetShadowOffset(1,1)..","..entity.light:GetShadowOffset(1,2)
	--elseif key=="range" then
	--	return entity.light:GetRange()
	--else
	--	return base_GetKey(model,key,value)
	--end
--end
end

function SetKey(model, key,value)
local entity=entitytable[model]
if entity==nil then return 1 end
if entity.model==nil then return 1 end

base_SetKey(model,key,value)

if entity.light==nil then
	--base_SetKey(model,key,value)
else
	--if key=="resolution" then
	--	if value=="0" then
	--		entity.light:SetShadowmapSize(256)
	--	elseif value=="1" then
	--		entity.light:SetShadowmapSize(512)
	--	elseif value=="2" then
	--		entity.light:SetShadowmapSize(1024)
	--	elseif value=="3" then
	--		entity.light:SetShadowmapSize(2048)
	--	end
	--elseif key=="range" then
	--	entity.light:SetRange(value)
	--elseif key=="shadowresolution" then
	--	resolution=entity.light:GetShadowmapSize()
	--	if resolution==256 then
	--		return 0
	--	elseif resolution==512 then
	--		return 1
	--	elseif resolution==1024 then
	--		return 2
	--	elseif resolution==2048 then
	--		return 3
	--	else
	--		return -1
	--	end
	--elseif key=="multoffset" then
	--	entity.light:SetShadowOffset(entity.light:GetShadowOffset(0,0),value,0)
	--elseif key=="linearoffset" then
	--	entity.light:SetShadowOffset(value,entity.light:GetShadowOffset(1,0),0)
	--else
	--	return base_SetKey(model,key,value)
	--end
end

return 1
end

[Josh]

You are always returning 1 from SetKey. I experienced this same problem and realized you don't want to actually set the position, rotation, scale keys. If you open base.lua you will see that when those values are set, the functions positions them, then returns 0. Your function should say this:

 

return base_SetKey(model,key,value)

 

Instead of this:

 

return 1