[SOLVED] Can't get reference to entity (set in Attribute) in initialize function

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I was trying to extend this example (PlayCanvas Examples) but in the Play Canvas Editor instead of in one massive JS file.

I created a template for the “player” and I am able to create new instances of the player template, however I can’t seem to be able to pass references to the canvas/screen/font for the complete instantiation of the UI components… so you can see the 3d models get drawn on the world, but the UI parts throw an exception when I try to add them to the screen.

2

I seem to have “solved” the problem by storing references globally to the screen and camera entities… not ideal, but it works!

3

References to entities outside of the template are not kept/stored in the template asset

You can get around this by assigning the attributes before adding the instantiated entity to the scene.

eg:

    var asset = this.app.assets.find('Golem', 'template');
    /** @type {pc.Template} */
    var template = asset.resource;
    var entity = template.instantiate();
    entity.script.a.foobar = this.entity;
    entity.reparent(this.entity);

Where script a is

var A = pc.createScript('a');
A.attributes.add('foobar', { type: 'entity'});

// initialize code called once per entity
A.prototype.initialize = function() {
    console.log(this.foobar.name);
};