GetEntityKey of a Picked Entity

[gamecreator]

Is there a way to use GetEntityKey on a picked entity?

 

I've set the key on an entity and can successfully get it back if I ask for it directly, but trying to use CameraPick and the following code

 

GetEntityKey(pick.entity,"id")

 

returns an empty string (NULL?). Am I doing anything wrong or is that not meant to work?

 

(If I do HideEntity(pick.entity) it works fine too so I know I've selected the right entity.)

[Rick]

It's something with the model vs the mesh. Try getting the entities parent or child and passing that to GetEntityKey(). I always forget which direction it goes.

[gamecreator]

This works:

 

GetEntityKey(GetParent(pick.entity),"id")

 

Thank you Rick.

[macklebee]

because when you set the key, you probably set it to the model... whereas raycasting only works with meshes and terrains... the pick entity is a mesh and is a child of the model...

[gamecreator]

That makes sense but it's not immediately intuitive. Thank you.

[Flexman]

This one I get confused over: what does ForEachEntityInAABBDo(..) return?

Meshes or Models? Both?

[Pixel Perfect]

I'd assume it's for every entity within a given AABB volume so Models, Meshes, Bodies in fact anything that derives its pointer from a TEntity type.

 

But I don't know for a fact, I've never actually tried this as I seem to recollect it calls a user defined callback for the returned targets.