[SOLVED][LUA] Change character scene question

Hello there mates and matettes,

I've got stuck again and i don't know why my solution doesn't work.
I want to teleport a char (CurrentCharacter) to a specific scene out of a lua table entry.


while setting the position (coordinates) of the char works great:

I try to switch the character to another scene BEFORE said repositioning:


"scene_table[]" is a lua table with each room in the game as an entry. It contains the whole object, not only the name via :getName().
"selected_room" is an index from 1 to #scenes that exist.

When executing the script I get an error: :15: attempt to concatenate a userdata value

Any idea how i throw my wanted character to another scene?


kind regards
Sebastian

Did you try adding return in front of the getObject?

nope... didn't know why. When i print(char) directly after getting the object, it returns my char-name + tupel (tableid/objectid). So char is right. Also when i print out scene_table[selected_room] i get the correct roomname + tupel

Maybe need a delay between teleporting & updating character position?

The error comes up even before setting the chars position.
The problem is this line:

Do in need the objects itself in there or only their names?

Haha, got it:
I changed the "selected_room" to return the name and not the scene object
The function has to be

Data structure says it's a link so should be full path to scene.


* edit: sorry I thought I'd posted my reply ages back & went out for a bit & when I came back I saw that it hadn't processed. I see you figured it out anyway.

Yep, that was my problem. Thought that the Scene-Object is already enough to tell the engine: "hey, thats a scene, boi!"

The cool thing is that i have only one object on the debug screen which deals with the teleports (instead of one object for each entry).
A click on it checks the position of the cursor on the menu and picks the right teleport scene from a table which got autofilled before with all displayed scenes.
Then the char gets repositioned to the X+Y coordinates of an object called "debug_teleport" which is named on each scene the same but with different positions.
The list gets autofilled with every new scene, so the only thing i have to do when adding a new scene is
adding a debug_teleport object in the new scene and set its coordinates

Damn. I couldn't really be bothered with all the effort of creating a full debug system. I find it easy enough to run SnakeTail alongside of VS & use the odd key event for certain things. Typing something into the developer console (tab) is easy enough for me too.

the debug screen in my project is only for quick teleport and starting the game from specific points later (+ some misc stuff).