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datablocks

by Hadoken · in Torque Game Engine · 04/15/2003 (4:03 am) · 1 replies

I'm still a bit confused about datablocks, what i got is that they are like templates which are loaded when objects are created, and each object is assigned its datablock. Then i guess that during the game the values in these datablocks can be modified.
My weekly silly question: if i have 2 objects which start with the same datablock, can i modify their values separately, or changing data for object 1 will automatically change data for object 2?
And what happens when i save objects with %obj.save(%filename) after changing values in their datablocks? Am i saving the original datablock or the modified one?
Any reply to this would help me a lot, thanks.
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Torque Owner Injae Jeong
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04/18/2003 (3:24 pm)
The answer to your first question: my guess since the two objects are different though derived from same datablock, changing values of one shouldnt affect the other objects value.

As for second question, since you seem to be saving an object, the datablock's values shouldnt be affected.

I am a newbie too. Hope the explaination is right and helps you. This is my first reply after scores of questions :)