Spawning Player

[Karadag]

Hi. I want to load the player entity position from an object in the editor. It works very well but; I want to spawn in the center of the scene when there is no object named "info_player_start". When I remove the comment lines, it always spawns at the center of the scene. I don't understand why. Here is my code...

#include "Game.h"

Game::Game()
{
	loadMap();
	loadEntities();
	player = new Player(playerStartPosition);
}

Game::~Game()
{
	delete player;
}

void Game::loadMap()
{
	std::string mapname = System::GetProperty("map", "Maps/start.map");
	if (!Map::Load(mapname)) Debug::Error("Failed to load map \"" + mapname + "\".");
}

void Game::loadEntities()
{
	for (const auto e : World::GetCurrent()->entities) 
	{
		if (e->GetKeyValue("name") == "info_player_start") {
			playerStartPosition = e->GetPosition();
		}
		/*else {
			playerStartPosition = Vec3(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
		}*/
	}
}

void Game::Update()
{
	player->Update();
}

 

[Josh]

Do this:

void Game::loadEntities()
{
	playerStartPosition = Vec3(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
	for (const auto e : World::GetCurrent()->entities) 
	{
		if (e->GetKeyValue("name") == "info_player_start") {
			playerStartPosition = e->GetPosition();
        		break;
		}
	}
}

And please make sure you understand why this works!

[Karadag]

Of course! Thanks. Because this is a loop and the last element in the list is not "info_player_start". understood :) I should practice more.