I have a message which posts to an object which runs the following code:
table.insert(self.entities, message.id)
This has nothing to do the self.entities however, when I set a breakpoint on this line and manually type the same thing in the LUA evaluator the entity inserts without issue.
What could explain this? I don’t know how to debug it since the lua script logic seems to be disregarded.
Can you reiterate what you mean by this? Believe there is at least one typo or missing punctuation around “self.entities.”
No typo/punctuation issues nor errors relating to this code line. I now have even rebuilt the messaging system between the two objects and the issue is still unfixable… There may be some bugs in this new system since I just added it.
Can you show a bit more of the code?
It happens inside of an on_message function call. The bug is happening around this part of the function code:
elseif message_id == hash("entity_transferred") then -- TRANSFER ENTITY TO main_ref
table.insert(self.message_posted_entities, message.id)
msg.post(message.id, hash("entity_transferred"))
The logic here is meant to allow an entity to migrate spawned entities (tracked by that object) to the main instance. Then the instance sent to main is sent a message notifying it that it’s been transferred (to update state.)
I also changed the logic to accumulate all posted entities during the messaging stage until the next update loop. Then it sends all entities via a for loop to main at that point. That’s why it’s inserting to self.message_posted_entities now.
However, there are still issues with table.insert not behaving as expected.
What are your expectations here, and what are the actual results?
You can also pprint(self.message_posted_entities) to see what it contains.
Hey, I managed to workaround the issue by spawning those instances in main directly instead of transferring them. I think it had something to do with the timing of messages sent, etc. Not sure but I think there’s an issue w/ pausing in debug mode. I’ve seen other erratic behavior relating to this:
I replied to that thread now, and I believe that the physics issue is related to getting a huge delta time.
Would that explain your issues here?
Yeah I think that explains it.