Get animation name of collided actor?

[ikarus]

I have three actors that are all very very similar. I realized that it may be faster just have one actor that has all three animations and just specify the animation name through CreateActor. But each actor has a different collision even. I figured that I just need one even and specify a different thing depending on the animation name. I've been looking around on how to get it, but I'm not quite sure.

I tried using GetAnimName but it still only returns an animation of the even actor even if I give it collide.animindex.
Any ideas?

[ikarus]

Okay moved forward a bit, I made a type actor string variable and when the actor is created I do this:

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ctype = strcpy(type, GetAnimationName(animindex));

Then I have this in the collide even script editor:

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char ctype;
strcpy(ctype, collide.type);

But when my animation name is blue, this doesn't return true:

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if(ctype == "blue")

I know it's getting the right animation name cause I've made it also strcpy the type to a global char that I have a text actor updating from, and when I hit it the text actor prints out "blue". My only guess is that the name returned is a slightly different string than "blue"???

How would the string actually look like if I use strcpy?????

[edit]
fixed code typo above

[Jagmaster]

I believe to check a string's vale you use strcmp:

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if( strcmp(ctype, blue)==1)
{
//
}

[ikarus]

I believe to check a string's vale you use strcmp:

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if( strcmp(ctype, blue)==1)
{
//
}

still not working, sigh :/
What would cause two strings to not equal each other not, when they look the same?

[ikarus]

wait something ain't right cause if(strcmp("blue","blue")==1) isn't working

[Jagmaster]

whoops! My bad, It needed to be this:

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    if( strcmp(ctype, blue)==0)
    {
    //
    }


Dumb mistake. If it still doesn't work, Idk what the problem is.

[ikarus]

---Down't matter anymore---

[ikarus]

whoops! My bad, It needed to be this:

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    if( strcmp(ctype, blue)==0)
    {
    //
    }


Dumb mistake. If it still doesn't work, Idk what the problem is.

For a second you had me sure my computer was out to destroy everything I ever hoped to achieve lol

Thanks alot

[Jagmaster]

Yeah, sorry about that.