Entity
An entity is the manifestation of an agent in a place.
The only fixed information in an entity is its id. Everything else is specified as a set of components.
Methods
entity:getParent ()
Gets the parent of a given Entity.
Arguments
None
Returns
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Entity | The parent Entity, or nil if it has no parent. |
entity:getAncestor ()
Gets the topmost parent of a given Entity. E g, if given a user’s hand, gets the root avatar for that user.
Arguments
None
Returns
Nothing
entity:getMatchingDescendant (The)
Finds the first descendant of self where calling predicate with each descendant returns true.
Arguments
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The | Callback(entity):Bool | predicate callback to run for each descendant |
Returns
| Type | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Entity | nil | the found entity, or nil if non found |