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Clone(1) VS cloneWithBehaviors() I can't get the className

by Ezra · in Torque Game Builder · 07/30/2007 (1:49 am) · 1 replies

I'm having trouble cloning an object using cloneWithBehaviors, it has behaviors and settings that I want to duplicate, but it doesn't clone any of the Classname stuff, so I'm unable to continue using functions on it (EnemyClass::bla bla bla() etc).

If I use Clone(1) instead, I'm able to use the Classnames and functions, but I lose all my behavior settings that I was trying to bring over.


any ideas..? more info needed?
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Torque Owner Ezra
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07/31/2007 (1:52 am)
I figured out a way to do what I need... not sure if I'm oblivious to some simple functionality, but this works! It gets around the weird classname not working problem I was having..
The reason I needed this is how I'm placing enemies in the level editor, I place an enemy and set the first behavior to spawner, along with the desired amount to spawn, delays, etc.. Then when it activates it spawns a duplicate of itself however many times needed, and transfers any other behaviors to the newly spawned objects.

function EnemyClass::cloneBehaviors(%this, %obj)
{
{
   %count = %this.getBehaviorCount();   
   if ( %count > 0 )
   {
      for ( %i=1; %i<%count; %i++ )
      {
         %instance = %this.getBehaviorByIndex(%i);
         %template = %instance.template;
         %behavior = %template.createInstance();
         %fields = %behavior.template.getBehaviorFieldCount();
         for ( %f=0; %f<%fields; %f++ )
         {
            %field = %template.getBehaviorField(%f);
            %property = getWord(%field,0);
            %value = getWord(%field,2);
            %eval = "%behavior."@ %property @ " = "@ %instance @"."@ %property @";";
            eval(%eval);
         }
         %obj.addBehavior(%behavior);
      }
   }
}