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Common Oddity (solved)

by rennie moffat · in Torque Game Builder · 06/14/2011 (11:17 am) · 2 replies

Occasionally, like today I come across a very annoying thing. That thing is, sometimes a behavior, does not see an object declared in it's behaviorField.

ex.
game/scripts/behaviors/xxBehavior.cs (306): Unable to find object: 'thisObj' attempting to call function 'setFrame'



Thing is, i originally had the field for thisObj blank, in terms of, I declared the object in the editor, but also tried with it declared in script. So to sum it up, the object is seen as selected by the behavior in the editor, in fact it sets position as I ask it to, but will not set frame, stating that the behavior is unable to find object.I find this peculiar. IS there a common fix? Troubleshoot?




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    Torque Owner Kevin OFlaherty
    #1
    06/14/2011 (9:24 pm)
    Are you accessing the %this variable in the behavior? The first argument is the behaviorID then use %this.owner

    Example

    function BehaviorName::functionName(%this)
    {
    %this.owner.setFrame(3);
    }

    If this isn't what your asking or it didn't work you can get a faster response by emailing me. kevinoflaherty@makingindiegames.com

    Torque Owner rennie moffat
    Renman3000
    #2
    06/15/2011 (9:35 am)
    @Kevin, and all, thanks.
    I think I found the reason. My call to setFrame was onLevelLoaded, not onBehaviorAdd and as such, it may have been calling before the behavior actually had time to find it.