SetScale and SetScalef

[AggrorJorn]

So I'm just messing around outside the editor. I've taken a look at the example.lua file and I am noticing a different way of scaling and positioning entities.

instead of SetScale(Vec3()), the command SetScalef() is used. I can't find anything about it in the wiki. Whats is so different about it?

 

--edit

Just noticed that the size is different. F probably stands for foot?

[Canardia]

All commands with an f at the end means that they don't take a Vec3 as parameter, but 3 seperate float values.

mesh::SetScale(Vec3(1,2,3))
mesh::SetScalef(1,2,3)

[Rick]

f stands for float. It's the same thing, just a different way in passing the parameters. He should have just used the same name. Lua doesn't care if you use the same name with different parameters. It can figure it out.

[AggrorJorn]

ah okay,

I'll stick with vec3. it just sounds better.

[Canardia]

Yeah, it's also less typing when you use vec3, since then you can put it in a variable:

mesh::SetScale(a)

[AggrorJorn]

good point

[Josh]

f stands for float. It's the same thing, just a different way in passing the parameters. He should have just used the same name. Lua doesn't care if you use the same name with different parameters. It can figure it out.

You have to write the interpretation of the parameters yourself in the Lua interface code. Lua doesn't just choose a function based on the number of parameters, unfortunately.

[Rick]

oh, I thought it did this automatically. My bad.