Gameobject identifier

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Hi.

I think I might have found a bug (or not). Either way it’s something that I don’t get it and I need some help understand how this is treated in Defold.

I’m trying to group up gameobjects in a gameobject container. So I have an hierarchy similar to this in my collection:
-go_level_1: go_left, go_center, go_right
-go_level_2: go_left, go_center, go_right

Defold is throwing this error:
ERROR:GAMEOBJECT: Unable to set identifier /go_left. Name clash?

I was expecting that the identifier should be something like go_level_1/go_left and go_level_2/go_left and no error.

Most likely I misunderstood something but I can’t figure out what.

Thanks,
Fuscy

PS: For now I’m using go_left_level_1, go_left_level_2 but it’s quite a hassle doing this for all the sub components.

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I’m also profiling my game and there seem to be differences between the Web Profiler and the System one.

The System profiler shows:

  • Frame: 16.###
  • Max: 16.###

And the Web Profiler:

  • 65ms
  • Engine.Frame 64.64 1
  • VSync.Wait 58.59 1

So it’s either 15 fps or 60 fps.

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When you say “game object container” you mean collection, right?

In each collection, there can only be one “go_left”. The id you assign to a game object has nothing to do with the parent-child hierarchy you’re building. Parent-child affects the scene graph only and can be changed in runtime (by sending “set_parent” messages). The id is static and never changes.

See http://www.defold.com/manuals/message-passing/

and http://www.defold.com/ref/go/#set_parent

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Oh, I think I understand now. I need to do some refactoring then.

Thanks.

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