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[raychaser]

Having trouble phrasing my question. Maybe I'll give an example.

An script I have gets passed a string which corresponds to the name of an actor in a particular scene. This may be the main actor or an NPC. I want to take that string and from it find the actor's X and Y coordinates. Sounds simple...

As I see it this involves two problems:

• How do I reference an actor object given only a string corresponding to the object name? I believe standard javascript can do something like this[str] or document[str] but I'm not sure if that is possible here.
  
• Is it possible to find actors based on the scene that they are in like scene[actor] or something? The reason I ask is that each scene will have different actors and I don't want to have to declare ALL of them as global variables in every script or in global.inc since there will likely be a lot of them and keeping track of them in multiple places is a pain. The NPCs will be defined in scene_init.script for each scene but the function I'm trying to use is located in the root scripts location.

Does this make any sense?

[Mnemonic]

You'd need to store the actors in some array, if you want to enumerate them later. You could even store them under their name, something like:

actors_array["joe"] = Game.LoadActor("path\joe.actor");