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[Finn]

Hi,

Anyone have any suggestions on how I cycle through all the entities in a scene without knowing what they might be? I use a particular entity naming convention and want to apply certain code to all entities that, for example, have a name that starts with 'abc' (there could be 'abc1', 'abc2', 'abc_i_am_a_monkey', etc.).

Part of this will probably involve using the Substring method.

I've looked through the docs but nothing's jumping out at me. What I need is a collection or array or similar to work with. Is there some sort of a variation of GetNode?

Cheers.

[Mnemonic]

You can do something like this to iterate all entities in the main layer of the scene:

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var MainLayer = Scene.MainLayer;

// process all entities in the main scene layer
for(int i=0; i<MainLayer.NumNodes; i=i+1)
{
   var Node = MainLayer.GetNode(i);
   if(Node.Type=="entity") DoSomething();
}

Similarly, if you wanted to process all layers, you'd use another loop and Scene.NumLayers / Scene.GetLayer().

[Finn]

Thanks Mnemonic - exactly what I was looking for!

WME didn't like the 'int' declaration in the for line.

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for(int i=0; i<MainLayer.NumNodes; i=i+1)
Replaced it with 'var' instead and works a treat.

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for(var i=0; i<MainLayer.NumNodes; i=i+1)

[Mnemonic]

Hehe, oops, C-programmer's subconscious typo

[leucome]

I wish to know if it is posible to do it with the actor3d ?

[Mnemonic]

I wish to know if it is posible to do it with the actor3d ?

No, it only applies to "static" scene content. Since you're loading 3D actors dynamically, you'd have to keep track of them yourself, like storing them in some array when loading them etc.

[leucome]

I am curently using some array to keep track but i will need to do some test with Snene actor and Game actor ... Because now they are separated in my script ...

[jbw]

Yes, I can iterate all entities in all layers, but what about FREE entities? They aren't belong to any layer, so how to get them?

[Mnemonic]

You don't. There's currently no way of querying free entities other then using Scene.GetNode("entity_name"). For that, of course, you need to know the name of the entity you're looking for.