Set character to new scene (Lua)

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• #1, by darren-beckett Saturday, 23. January 2016, 12:34 11 years ago

  I'm trying to make a character change scene in Lua, but this doesn't seem to work?
  

  getObject("Characters[Receptionist].CharacterScene"):setValue(VCharacterScene, game:getLink("Game.GameCurrentCharacter.CharacterScene"))

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• #2, by SimonS Saturday, 23. January 2016, 13:03 11 years ago

  Try:
  

  Characters["Receptionist"].Scene = game.CurrentCharacter.Scene
  

• #3, by afrlme Saturday, 23. January 2016, 13:55 11 years ago

  Thing was that you didn't need to declare .CharacterScene in the getObject function as the setValue function would have taken care of that.
  
  Simon's shorthand method is definitely the way to go.

• #4, by darren-beckett Saturday, 23. January 2016, 14:29 11 years ago

  This works:
  

  mChar = getObject("Characters[Receptionist]")
  mChar.CharacterScene = game.GameCurrentCharacter.CharacterScene

  
  Thanks
  

• #5, by afrlme Saturday, 23. January 2016, 14:55 11 years ago

  Question: why did create variables? It seems like unnecessary work to me.
  
  Simon' one line would have worked. Speaking of faster workflow methods, you could actually create a Lua function to reduce the amount of characters / code / lines you need to type.
  
  
  function...
  

  function char2scn(c, s)
   -- + fallback + --
   if c == nil then c = game.CurrentCharacter:getName() end
   if s == nil then s = game.CurrentScene:getName() end
   -- + set character to scene + --
   Characters[c].Scene = Scenes[s]
  end
  

  
  usage...
  

  char2scn("Tom", "Kitchen") -- set character Tom to Kitchen scene
  ...
  char2scn(nil, "Kitchen") -- set active character to Kitchen scene
  ...
  char2scn("Tom") -- set character Tom to currently displayed scene
  

  
  ... I think you get the idea.

• #6, by darren-beckett Saturday, 23. January 2016, 15:45 11 years ago

  Android cannot access the Characters[] table directly.

• #7, by afrlme Saturday, 23. January 2016, 15:51 11 years ago

  Oh. Didn't know that. I would have thought that both the getObject & shorthand Lua access / update methods would be compatible across all the available platforms. Well, you could replace the Characters bit in the function I wrote with the getObject method instead.
  
  Are there any other shorthand tables that you've come across that can't be accessed directly on Android either?

• #8, by darren-beckett Saturday, 23. January 2016, 16:03 11 years ago

  These do not work: ActiveAnimations[], Values[], Interfaces[], Characters[]
  
  Note: I believe it may be all of them.

• #9, by afrlme Saturday, 23. January 2016, 17:09 11 years ago

  Ah... I guess it doesn't like shorthand in general. Strange, very strange.