Find entity by name?

[_Q_]

Any way of finding entity by its name instead of using tags?

[Serpens]

I don't know such a way.
But you can first search by tag and then sort them by prefab.
So to get eg. rabbit you can first search for "animal" and then loop thorugh the results and check the prefab.

[Aquaterion]

if you mean names like pignames and what not, there might be a tag for entities with the named component. If there is, I think the tag would be "_named".

[_Q_]

I search by tag and then need to compare the string provided as function argument with name of the prefab.

Not sure if entity:GetBasicDisplayName() is the right fucntion, it will return the string name, i dont rember if there was something like prefab.name in there somwhere.

[Serpens]

24 minutes ago, _Q_ said:

I search by tag and then need to compare the string provided as function argument with name of the prefab.

Not sure if entity:GetBasicDisplayName() is the right fucntion, it will return the string name, i dont rember if there was something like prefab.name in there somwhere.

what exactly do you want to find? Please give an example.
Do you want to get the prefab? Or the string name? or the name like "steve" given from the "named" component ?

You get the string name by:
GLOBAL.STRINGS.NAMES[string.upper(prefab)]

[CarlZalph]

You question is quite vague as to what you're wanting.

 

inst.name

inst.prefab

inst:GetBasicDisplayName()

inst:GetDisplayName()

 

TheSim:FindEntities only filters by tags, but during your iteration loop on it you can compare against these for further filtering.