Hi Community,

I want to to duplicate (copy) an Entity.

I want something like that:


I know, that this is not possible, I tried something like reading the name from an infofile and fill a String with it.
Like that:



But all I've got is Error E1513.

There is no other way!
I need to get the Action-Name from the scanned Entity.

Is there anyone who can solve this?
Thanks in advance!

Best regards
Sebbi

you can either store some function pointer in a skill or you can use engine_getscript to get the action/function by name

the first one works like this:

ent = ent_create([...], myaction);
ent.actionptr = myaction;
[...]
you = ent_create(ent.type, ent.x, ent.actionptr);

the second one:

ent = ent_create([...], myaction);
ent.string1 = "myaction";
[...]
you = ent_create(ent.type, ent.x, engine_getscript(_chr(ent.string1))); // EDIT: Too dumb to write correct cody, sorry!

you evencan use engine_getscript, and let the action parameter of ent_create NULL.
Now just give the action name to the entity with:
pointer.event = the engine_getscript_function.