How to access assets from two colliding actors?

[waggle]

I have a situation were I have two colliding bodies and I need to create another based upon that collision.

Creating a new actor is simple using something like the below code:


CreateActor("MyActor", "MyActor", "view", "(none)", x, y, false);

The difficultly I am encountering is that I need to be able to access some of the variables in the newly made actor based upon the data from the two colliding actors.

In other words, in the collision event handling script I need to:

1. Create a new actor.
2. modify some of it’s actor variable contents based upon values from the two colliding actor’s variables.


How do I reference these variables?

Hopefully I’ve made myself clear.

[makslane]

You can get the returned pointer to access the new actor:

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Actor *newActor = CreateActor("MyActor", "MyActor", "view", "(none)", x, y, false);

newActor->lives = 3; //For example
 

If you are in a Collision event, just use the actor 'collide' the access the variables on collide actor:

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newActor->lives = collide.lives; //For example

[waggle]

Excellent. Thanks for the assistance.