Hi folks, how am I able to check if the entity still exist? in C it is able to check a pointer with...

if(ptr) { do something }

But this cant seems to work for ENTITY in 3DGS. Therefore is there anyway I could check if the entity still exist?

Thanks

Maybe you mean something like this?

if (enemy != null) {do something}

Nice try logitek, but that wont work UNLESS you set it up to...

Lets stick with the 'enemy' pointer for simplicity.

When the engine does an 'ent_remove(enemy)', the entity DOES get removed...
BUT the enemy pointer still holds the OLD ADDRESS of where the entity was,
so the if(enemy != NULL) (which is the same as if(!enemy)) will still
show as enemy being 'not zero', and therefore APPARENTLY in existence. FAIL!

So what you need to do is STRAIGHT AFTER the ent_remove, you will also need to
change the enemy pointer to NULL, so any later if's will work as expected.

BUT REMEMBER, if there any OTHER pointers ANYWHERE in your code that were pointing
to this entity, they will STILL be pointing at the old address...
Catching them and NULLing them is where it gets tricky, and application dependant...

So perhaps the safest way to do it is to use a handle instead of a pointer, and ptr_for_handle for getting temporary pointers to the object -- this'll automatically be NULL when the object has been removed.

Thanks guys, enemy = NULL works for me.. just what I wanted. Thanks.