Grouping entities in editor

[Arska134]

How i can group one kind of entities? For example items which player is able to pick up. Some kind of prefix in name or something like that.

 

Another question is how can i identify those "items" in my Blitzmax code to be able to pick up them?

[ParaToxic]

For example you can work with the Entity Keys.For example if you need the impact sounds of different materials,you give the entitys keys in the group "Impact" f.x : SetEntityKey(...,"Impact","Wood"); or SetEntityKey(...,"Impact","Sand"); and soone.

[Arska134]

So basically i can SetEntityKey() in LUA script in editor and then GetEntityKey() in Blitzmax code?

[ParaToxic]

Yes you set for example in lua : object.SetKey("Impact","Wood");

And in Bmax(sry I can't programm in Bmax ,only pseudocode) for picked entity :

string keyvalue = GetEntityKey(pick.entity,"Impact");
if(keyvalue == "Wood")
.......

[Arska134]

Little bit confused with LUA...

SetEntityKey( TEntity entity, str keyname, str keyvalue )

 

So what is "self" entity in LUA script for "TEntity entity".

 

Need to have something like this:

SetEntityKey( self entity, "food", "bread" )

[ParaToxic]

No you need to use the mesh and write something like:

 

function class:CreateObject(model)
local object=self.super:CreateObject(model)
    self.model:SetKey(key,value)
end