How To Pass Objects Between Nodes On Same Object?

Hi mxstudios, It does show errors on Windows, it's just broken on Mac.

Good job, that functionality should be in BB3 by default.

 

Ah. Maybe I need to do some dev on the PC. Might speed it up for the scripting. Thx for letting me know that.

 

I have BB on PC and Mac. I started using Mac with BB3 as I did with BB2 but the first version of BB3 wouldn't run on my Mac because of something to do with the graphics engine, so I switched to PC and it turned out it was lucky because of the error reporting. I'm sure it has saved me days of debugging having that available.

 

Hi Bill
I'm new to both Buildbox and JS (unfortunately). I found it BB via fb ad and I have an idea for a puzzle game so thought I'd give it a try.
Hopefully there's a way to do what I want natively but I can't find one, so Google brought me here!

I have 2 objects ('Square 1' and 'Square 4')
I'm trying to pass the colour of Sq4 to Sq1. (They will change over time)
Trying to implement your code above I have (hoping it posts correctly!)

Sq4 (Object), in a 'Set Color' Node that I have named 'Set Start Color'. This is the sending node:

Code:

function init(){

}

function update(dt){

}

var sq4colour

function signal(name, value) {

//Check the incoming signals

if (name == 'Set' && value) {

//get the node attributes

let col = this.attribute('Color');


//set the entity color

this.entity().setColor(col.r, col.g, col.b, col.a);

sq4colour = this.entity().color


let comp = this.entity().component('Square 1.Set Color');

comp.signal('send_sq4colour', sq4colour );


//Emit signal to indicate the node finished

this.emitSignal('Done', true);

}

}

Sq1 (Object), in a 'Set Color' Node named 'Set Color'. This is the receiving node:

Code:

function init(){

}

function update(dt){

}

var colour_from_sq4

function signal(name, value) {

//Check the incoming signals

if (name == 'send_sq4colour') {

colour_from_sq4 = value

//get the node attributes

//let col = this.attribute('Color');

//set the entity color

this.entity().setColor(colour_from_sq4.r, colour_from_sq4.g, colour_from_sq4.b, colour_from_sq4.a);

//Emit signal to indicate the node finished

this.emitSignal('Done', true);

}

}

I'm getting a compile(?) error:
JS Error [asset: Square 4, component: Set Start Color, line: 0] - TypeError: comp is null

Pls help!
Thanks
Robin