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Hey there,

I'm wondering why Idents can't be declared as net-variable since quite some time, is there a major problem which would prevent this or may it be possible in the future?
Because it would help a lot if it would be possible to pass Idents to clients

example: Regards,
Steff

Idents are instance references and thus can not be serialized properly. It's probably the reason why not and it's quite logical.

hm, i don't really get the "Instance references" thing, isn't Ident a simple type used as key in many array? if it's a reference, how do i get the according instance from the Ident then?

thanks for the response anyways

Idents seem to be some internal dirty thing.
Idents are, however, dynamic on their own, which could also be the reason why it's not transferable.

TGYoshi wrote:Idents seem to be some internal dirty thing.

i will probably go with that

is there not a way to convert an Ident to a text or string type variable and then pass that to net?

like

declare Text[] PlayersIdents;
foreach(Player in Players)
{
PlayersIdents.add(Player.Id);
}

and then do whatever you want with PlayersIdents?


I know it's not that simple exactly, but isn't there some way to convert?

Kaphene wrote:is there not a way to convert an Ident to a text or string type variable and then pass that to net?

well, yes

it would rather be like: but you can't use the string as key for the arrays, you would have to compare (IdentString == ""^Object.Id) all the time, i know that there are some work-arounds but using the Idents directly would be a lot easier

Well Idents ARE insanely dirty.
For example take the BlockScriptId in an EditorPlugin. It's an integer. However, it refers to the Ident of a block when a maptype is ran so you have to convert the Ident of a block when the game runs to an integer (first to a string, then strip the # using TextLib) to compare it...