parents

[elite]

howdy yall, how do you make the selected character(i have a list of all the guys you can be in-game) become the parent of the view? this is really confusing me.....

[DilloDude]

Maybe just use something like: Player->CreateActor->ChangeParent(view, "Event Actor"). It depends a little on the situation.

[elite]

hmm, i was just thinking, what is the difference between draw actor and create actor?

[DilloDude]

Create actor takes place only once, when the CreateActor function is called, and the actor is first created. That's where you initialize variables and things like that. Draw actor takes place every time the actor is drawn on the screen, IE every frame (which at standard rate is thirty times a second). That's where you put stuff that the actor constantly refers to.