Tagged Objects

[rusty]

Hi... For some reason I can't get a tagged object!

Yesterday I seemed to solve the issue by restarting the editor. Now i'm getting a nil variable.

I've tried both these methods:

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this.hBall( application.getCurrentUserSceneTaggedObject("ball") )


and

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local hScene = application.getCurrentUserScene ( )
this.hBall( scene.getTaggedObject ( hScene, "ball" ) )


before trying to use it in this:

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local x, y, z = object.getTranslation(this.hBall(), object.kGlobalSpace )


I've even used the first variation in that...


This is only my second day so it's probably linking the AI to the scene or similar, but it's getting called... so?

[rusty]

I think my issue is to do with scene loading, reloading and AI initialisation...

More tests...

[RedQueen]

What you coded should work. I don't see why it is returning nil. I could look at your file if you want.

[rusty]

I think my issue is similar to this:
http://www.stonetrip.com/developer/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=24351&sid=9ecc119aaa8ac326e46e13c13ef19c2d


Basically I used log.message() to indicate when AI's start running and they all (except object AI's) start running straight away...

I seem to have solved it in another test, even though I haven't even tried states yet, even though i'm using a variable as a state... probably wrong (ish) but it's doing the job for now.


Can anyone point me towards a good tutorial on using states please?