1) When hammer adds properties to an entity the property name is always
forced lowercase, so you will never metach the property "m_iPowerzone".
2) Depending on the version of the compile tools you're using they may be
deleting non-dynamic & unanamed the light entities out of your BSP after
RAD, many recent version do this to reduce the number of entities.
-----Original Message-----
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 10:44:38 +1000
From: Josh Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: hlcoders@list.valvesoftware.com
Subject: [hlcoders] UTIL_FindEntityBy problems
Reply-To: hlcoders@list.valvesoftware.com
Rightm the UTIL_FindEntityBy* functions have been giving me some
problems with the work I'm doing for HL1. I'm trying to find all
light entities with a certain property that I've added to group
certain lights together, there's a new variable in the fgd base light
class, and it's in the corresponding CLight class too, I've done the
keyvalues etc. Anyways, I first tried using UTIL_FindEntityByString,
using the normal loop method:
CBaseEntity *pEnt = NULL;
for(;pEnt = UTIL_FindEntityByString(pEnt,"m_iPowerzone",m_iPowerzone;)
{
if(!pEnt) break;
//...
}
This came up with no entities. I have checked the fgd, the light
class has a member called m_iPowerzone which is a string, it's
recorded in the KeyValues() function for CLight. I'm stumped. I
decide to try using the Classname function, like so:
for(;;)
{
switch(light_type)
{
case 0:
pTarget = UTIL_FindEntityByClassname(pTarget,"light");
if(!pTarget) { ALERT(at_console,"no more lights\n");
light_type++; continue; }
else break;
case 1:
pTarget = UTIL_FindEntityByClassname(pTarget,"light_spot");
if(!pTarget) { ALERT(at_console,"no more light_spots\n");
light_type++; continue; }
else break;
case 2:
pTarget = UTIL_FindEntityByClassname(pTarget,"light_environment");
if(!pTarget) { ALERT(at_console,"no more light_environments\n");
return; }
else break;
}
//...
}
And it's as I suspected, it doesn't even find a single light entity.
The test map I'm working with has two of them, they have different
powerzone settings, but this finds nothing at all. Any suggestions?
Josh
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