VehicleVarName headaches...

[Bulldog72 10]

In a script I have this:

_carVehicleVarName = "foobar"; //the real "string"

That is all the script knows at this point.

Metainfo:

In my game there exists a vehicle (a humvee actually but thats not important here) which indeed has the name foobar and can be referenced by it.

Therefore:

_carPos = getPos foobar;

is perfectly valid.

And this is exactly what I need. The position of said car foobar.

How do I get there from the string "foobar"?

[twirly 11]

The cars name isn't a string..... should just be named foobar without the quotes

...or maybe you mean this... http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setVehicleVarName

Edited May 17, 2012 by twirly
Added stuff

[carlostex 38]

When you do that don't use quotes. That way you'll assign that value into a global variable.

_carvehicleVarName = foobar;

Just check Twirly's link, and you'll see how to correctly assign a variable name to an object. Maybe that was what you wanted.

If you do it, remember to publicVariable it, in case you're making MP mission and you want that variable to be recognized across the whole network.

[Bulldog72 10]

Ty, but the problem at this point is still I can not know the car as the "object".

So I cant do a

_carObject = foobar;

because I dont know foobar (without quotes) yet.

I do know "foobar" (or "myuberride" or "whatever") as string representation of some object's name only - the script does not have the Metainfo that there are actual objects floating around with those names.

And I cant do a

if (_carvehicleVarName == "foobar") then {
  foobar doDance; //do something with object foobar
};

for all possible names either because the "name's pool" may change dynamically. Some names may come from editor placed objects, some are assigned with setVehicleVarName as vehicles are created at runtime.

I need to get my hand on the actual object reference starting from those string names first...

Basically I would need something similar to:

_myride = [color="#FF0000"]getObjectWithVehicleVarName[/color] _carvehicleVarName;

Any other ideas or am I barking up the wrong tree here and something like this is not doable?

[xeno 230]

[left][color=#333333]_myride = [/color]missionNamespace getVariable [color=#333333]_carvehicleVarName;[/color][/left]

Xeno

[Bulldog72 10]

That should do the trick, tyvm!