Whats my model number?

[Otterman]

OK, ive posted this on the director forum and its yielded nada, zip, naff all! Gona share this pickle with me fellow lightwavers, here gos nothing-

How do you get hold of the model number ive clicked on- heres the code ive worked on so far- just got the last part to figure out. Got a feeling this one is obvious and staring me in the face.



------ calculate the click location
upperLeft = point(sprite(1).left, sprite(1).top)
clickLocation = the mouseLoc - upperLeft

------ get the model there
if sprite(1).camera.modelUnderLoc(clickLocation) = false then
nothing
else
model = sprite(1).camera.modelUnderLoc(clickLocation)

------ send to message window (THE MODEL NUMBER)
put model() ?????

 

[Otterman]

Ok no magical lingo command but am just loopn through the models and see which index number is the one with the name of the clicked model.

script-

------ calculate the click location
upperLeft = point(sprite(1).left, sprite(1).top)
clickLocation = the mouseLoc - upperLeft

------ get the model there
if sprite(1).camera.modelUnderLoc(clickLocation) = false then
nothing
else
model = sprite(1).camera.modelUnderLoc(clickLocation)

repeat with n = 1 to sprite(1).member.model.count
if sprite(1).member.model[n].name = model.name then
------ send to message window (THE MODEL NUMBER)
put n
end if
end repeat
end if

 

[Sam_Horton]

find a model's number

It's seems weird that director allows you to look up the model's name, but not it's number

Here's a script that runs pretty fast!

property w3d, cam, mList

on beginSprite me  
  --variables are good!
  w3d = sprite(1).member
  cam = w3d.camera(1)
  
  --build a list of all the models in the scene
  mList = []
  repeat with i = 1 to w3d.model.count
    m = w3d.model(i)
    mList.add(m.name)
  end repeat
end

on exitFrame me
  m = cam.modelUnderLoc(the mouseLoc)
  if m <> void then
    --find the position in mlist of model m's name
    put mList.findpos(m.name)
  end if
  go the frame
end