Prefab to full name?

[BakaSchwarz]

I searched but did not find anything regarding this matter. If i have the prefab string, how can i get the name of the entity? I know i can use inst.name when i spawn it, but is there a way to avoid spawning it?

[pickleplayer]

are you maybe looking for  inst.prefab?

[BakaSchwarz]

inst.prefab is only usable when i have an instance of the prefab. It's also not what i need since it gives me the prefab name, but not the full name.

As an example: I have the prefab "eyebrellahat". What i want is a way to translate this to "Eyebrella" without spawning the prefab and calling inst.name

What i am currently doing is something like this and it just feels bad in a performance way:

local prefab_spawncode = "eyebrellahat"
local inst = SpawnPrefab(prefab_spawncode)
local prefab_name = inst.name -- This returns "Eyebrella"
inst:Remove()

 

Edited March 8, 2018 by BakaSchwarz

[pickleplayer]

Ohhhh, I see what you mean. I don't know of any ways to do that, sorry. Though I'm curious as to why you would need to do it that way, and what you're trying to do in the first place. There may be a different way to do it

[IronHunter]

It almost seems like your trying to get the STRINGS.NAMES[spawncode] for the prefab right?

If that is what you are trying to do, I found this blurb from entityscript.

--line 646 in function EntityScript:SetPrefabName(name)
STRINGS.NAMES[string.upper(self.prefab)]

Replacing self.prefab with a string like "eyebrellahat" gives me the string name that you get when you hover over stuff.

Hope that helps

Cheers,

Iron_Hunter

Edited March 9, 2018 by IronHunter
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