FindChild() issue

[Rick]

So in Lua I make a model a parent to a cube I create in Lua code. I then give it a setting where the key is "name" and the value is "cube". In C++ the model gets loaded in, but when I try to call FindChild(model, "cube") I get nothing. If I loop through all the children of the model there are 2 children (mesh & my cube). The name key is there.

 

I thought FindChild() read the key called "name" and returned with the first child with a given name matches, but in this case it seems like it's not. Any ideas why?

[Canardia]

I had the same problem, so I used a hardcoded GetChild(2) to get it to work.

[Digital Anime]

I had the same problem, so I used a hardcoded GetChild(2) to get it to work.

 

I see this is a recent post, is this a bug?

 

Cause I try to use Findchild to retrieve the hand, but it gives an error that the Entity=Null

 

Blitzmax code I'm using

Player:TMesh = LoadMesh("Models\Playermodel.gmf")
If Not Player RuntimeError "Failed to load mesh."

Local PlayerRHand:TEntity = FindChild(Player, "Bip01 R Hand")
If Not PlayerRHand RuntimeError "Cannot find RHand Child"

 

So I must use something like this for now?

Local PlayerRHand:TEntity = Getchild(Player,<Int number of bone/child here>)

 

Edit:

I can use getchild on the First bone, and I used the settings in Ultimate Unwrap like explained in the tutorial including the bones. Could this also have to do with the treestructure I see in the bonelist?

[Digital Anime]

Seems like I have to do something like this with a tree structure and it seems to work for me.

 

Local PlayerRHand:TEntity = getchild(getchild(getchild(getchild(getchild(getchild(getchild(Player, 1), 1), 3), 1), 2), 1), 1)

 

It's not pretty, so I hope to be able to use findchild for this soon.