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Need help finding objects by ID or Name in the C++

by Vince Gee · in Torque 3D Professional · 02/25/2012 (10:03 pm) · 2 replies

Anyone know how to get a hold of these object from the outside, most of the declares can either be gotten by Sim::FindObject or the abstract class thing. BUT these objects I can not figure out how to find by name or id regardless of what I try.

GuiClockHud
GuiChunkedBitmapCtrl
GuiDragAndDropControl
GuiWindowCtrl
GuiEditCtrl

InteriorInstance
ShaderData
PostEffect
SFXSound
SFXState
RigidShape
DecalData
SFXEmitter
CubemapData

Path (Ambiguity error message on this)

SimpleNetObject (I think this is a testing object)


So basically I have 875 externs converted out of a possible 922. I would really like to get all 922. If anyone knows of a way to find the above objects when you only have their name or id, I would really appreciate the info.

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Torque Owner Jean-louis Amadi
Game Alchemy Entertainment
#1
02/26/2012 (1:05 am)
Hello Vince,

On the C++ side, there is various special SimGroup's as:


  1. (ClientGroup)
  2. (GuiGroup)
  3. (GuiDataGroup)
  4. (TCPGroup)
  5. (ClientConnectionGroup)
  6. (SFXParameterGroup)
  7. (Several other...)

And a very special "RootGroup" which theorically contains all the objects created from the start of the app.

You can get these special groups in C++ with :

Sim::get#NameOfTheSpecialGroup#()->, in the case of RootGroup it become Sim::getRootGroup()->

After you can iterate in and find their objects or use :

Sim::getRootGroup()->findObject(const char* name)
But It seem that the classical 'Sim::findObject(...)' use already RootGroop...

PostFX are stored in "PFXSet" which is stored in "RootGroup", these specificities have to be found in the code...

I hope this helps. ;)

Torque Owner Daniel Buckmaster
T3D Steering Committee
#2
02/26/2012 (3:05 am)
Quote:Path (Ambiguity error message on this)
I think you may need to use Sim::Path - Path is also a class used in the console internals to refer to a file path. I *think*.