How to get the properties of a brick?

[Conan]

I'm talking about the NTname of a brick. Looking through trace and other things, I found that the name itself is an object referencing that brick, once assigned to a brick.

okay i could have sworn i did that and it didn't give me an answer. this was the first thing i tried too oops.

i was trying to get it to preserve properties of bricks when removing one and placing another. i also need to know how to get the item/emitter/light data as well.

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[TheBlackParrot]

%brick.getName()?
NT names have a "_" in front of them, for reference.

[Amade]

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%name = %brick.getName();
%name = getSubStr(%name, 1, strLen(%name)-1);
It seems like that's not what you're looking for, though. What are you trying to do?

[Conan]

%brick.getName()?
NT names have a "_" in front of them, for reference.

okay i could have sworn i did that and it didn't give me an answer. this was the first thing i tried too oops.

i was trying to get it to preserve properties of bricks when removing one and placing another. i also need to know how to get the item/emitter/light data as well.

[Amade]

okay i could have sworn i did that and it didn't give me an answer. this was the first thing i tried too oops.

i was trying to get it to preserve properties of bricks when removing one and placing another. i also need to know how to get the item/emitter/light data as well.

You're going to want a few other things, too... To save you a bit of trouble, here's an excerpt from the Swiss Army Gun's move tool:

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%brick = new FxDtsBrick()
{
position          = %col.position;
oriPosition       = %col.position;
rotation          = %col.rotation;
oriRotation       = %col.rotation;
dataBlock         = %col.dataBlock;
oriDataBlock      = %col.dataBlock;
angleId           = %col.angleId;
oriAngleId        = %col.angleId;
colorId           = %col.colorId;
oriColorId        = %col.colorId;
printId           = %col.printId;
oriPrintId        = %col.printId;
emitterDiection   = %col.emitterDirection;
oriIsRaycasting   = %col.isRaycasting();
oriIsColliding    = %col.isColliding();
oriIsRendering    = %col.isRendering();
itemDirection     = %col.itemDirection;
itemPosition      = %col.itemPosition;
itemResawnTime    = %col.itemRespawnTime;
colorFxId         = %col.colorFxID;
shapeFxId         = %col.shapeFxID;
vehicleDatablock  = %col.vehicleDatablock;
client            = %client;
delAfterPlant     = true;
transferProperties= true;
};
%obj.tempBrick = %brick;
if(isObject(%col.emitter))
{
%brick.emitterData = %col.emitter.emitter;
}
if(isObject(%col.light))
{
%brick.lightData = %col.light.getDatablock();
}
if(isObject(%col.item))
{
%brick.itemData = %col.item.getDatablock();
}
if(isObject(%col.audioEmitter))
{
%brick.musicData = %col.audioEmitter.profile;
}
//Events
%brick.numEvents = %col.numEvents;
for(%i = 0; %i < %col.numEvents; %i++)
{
%brick.eventDelay[%i] = %col.eventDelay[%i];
%brick.eventEnabled[%i] = %col.eventEnabled[%i];
%brick.eventInput[%i] = %col.eventInput[%i];
%brick.eventInputIdx[%i] = %col.eventInputIdx[%i];
%brick.eventOutput[%i] = %col.eventOutput[%i];
%brick.eventOutputAppendClient[%i] = %col.eventOutputAppendClient[%i];
%brick.eventOutputIdx[%i] = %col.eventOutputIdx[%i];
for(%j = 1; %col.getOutputParameter(%i, %j) !$= ""; %j++)
{
%brick.setOutputParameter(%i, %j, %col.getOutputParameter(%i, %j));
}
%brick.eventTarget[%i] = %col.eventTarget[%i];
%brick.eventTargetIdx[%i] = %col.eventTargetIdx[%i];
}To my knowledge this covers every property bricks have in the default game.

[Conan]

okay wow that's very helpful, thanks.

keywords: brick properties, brick item property, event properties, emitter property, brick wrench menu properties, brick emitter light properties

Edit: Amade, i see some spelling errors. Probably should fix them
Edit2: Should have clarified why. ori[word] looked like a typo to me at first.

[Amade]

Edit: Amade, i see some spelling errors. Probably should fix them

Oh dear.

[Swollow]

damn amade where tf have you been

edit on topic: doing %obj.dump(); will get properties of an object, it's really godamn helpful

[Amade]

damn amade where tf have you been

colleg

[Conan]

edit on topic: doing %obj.dump(); will get properties of an object, it's really godamn helpful

yes but this is the paramters it outputs:

//Member Fields:
//  angleID = "0"
//  client = "14998"
//  colorFxID = "0"
//  colorID = "0"
//  dataBlock = "brick2x2Data"
//  isBasePlate = "1"
//  isPlanted = "1"
//  position = "-4 -5 0.3"
//  printID = "0"
//  rotation = "1 0 0 0"
//  scale = "1 1 1"
//  shapeFxID = "0"
//  stackBL_ID = "4928"
//Tagged Fields:
//Methods:
//  addEvent() -
etc


as you can see its clearly missing a lot compared to amade's post

[Shift Kitty]

A lot of those things in Amade's post are specifically for swiss army knife/gun.
A lot of the other things will show up as tagged fields but only when they're actually set.
Wrench a brick, change/set everything possible, and put like, 3 events on it, at least one of them with an output event that has 4 fields, and one that has a datablock.
And then find the rest with the functions that .dump(); gives as well, such as the set/get colliding/raycasting/rendering functions.

[Pastrey Crust]

If it doesn't show up, it doesn't have it. Also note at Amade's post that it has the current property and the origProperty, or, the original property so some are duplicated.