Solved spawn entities with an alias

[PS_VITA]

Hi, On level txt I know how to spawn
an object and assign it an alias.

How is this done with a spawn script?

I'm familiar with the spawn01 script created by @DCurrent and I know I can use setspawnentry("alias", "_");
but what do I need to write or modify in the script in order to have both the entity name an assign an alias at spawn?

Thank you

 

[DCurrent]

Entities don't actually have an alias property. That's just a spawn command that sets the entity's name property as it spawns into play. Otherwise name is the same as the model's name. The entity's name property is accessible through script:

char entity_name = "";

entity_name = getentityproperty(<entity pointer>, "name");

entity_name = "John_Smith";

changeentityproperty(<entity pointer>, "name", entity_name);

Additionally there's a defaultname property. It also starts as the model's name, and never changes unless you do it with script.

DC

 

[PS_VITA]

Entities don't actually have an alias property. That's just a spawn command that sets the entity's name property as it spawns into play. Otherwise name is the same as the model's name. The entity's name property is accessible through script:

char entity_name = "";

entity_name = getentityproperty(<entity pointer>, "name");

entity_name = "John_Smith";

changeentityproperty(<entity pointer>, "name", entity_name);

Additionally there's a defaultname property. It also starts as the model's name, and never changes unless you do it with script.

DC

Great! And Thank you!