Getting vars from other objects?

[Andy Gilbert]

Ive got myself a little stuck using lua in editor.

 

I have objects with scripts attatched and one of them uses the:

 

Script.entityName = nil --entity "Pivot"

 

so i can reference to that entity within the script, this entity also has a script attatched with some variables set. As i can now access the entity's properties such as GetPosition, GetRotation ETC, How would I access the entities scripts variables?

 

Thanks

Andy

[Andy Gilbert]

Ignore, ive done it. Easy actually

 

Andy

[Pancakes]

uh...I want to make sure you've done it correctly, so that uh, you don't have any issues with it in the future, mind if I check your methods for you? free of charge of course

[Andy Gilbert]

Of course. Sorry i should have put this for others. When you have a entity referenced that has a script attached with variables initialised within. Its a simple case of:

 

myVar = self.entity.script.VarName

 

As a side note, i got this from looking through darkness awaits scripts.

 

Andy

[Admin]

myVar = self.entity.script.VarName

 

In your example there, "self" and "script" are the same object, so this is more straightforward:

myVar = self.VarName

 

To access values on another entity, using a pick result as an example:

if world:Pick(0,0,0, 0,0,1, pickinfo) then
if pickinfo.entity.script~=nil then
a = pickinfo.entity.script.Varname
end
end

[Andy Gilbert]

Ahh I see. Even easier then.

 

Thanks

Andy