Adobe Director Basics

ADOBE DIRECTOR BASICS
3D: Controlling action
Accessing a rigidBody
There are three methods for obtaining a pointer to a rigidBody
physicsMember.getRigidBody() returns a pointer to the rigidBody whose name you pass as a parameter, or VOID if
no rigidBody with that name exists.
physicsMember.getRigidBodies() returns a list of all the rigidBody objects in the Physics world.
physicsMember.getSleepingBodies() returns a list of all the dynamic rigidBody objects in the Physics world which
are currently not moving.
Note: If you use an integer as the parameter to getRigidBody(), a script error occurs. To access a rigidBody by its integer
index number, use the following syntax:
vRB = physicsMember.getRigidBodies()[aIndex]
-- Lingo syntax
put member("Physics").getRigidBody("Ball")
-- rigidBody("ball")
put member("Physics").getRigidBody("non-existant")
--
put member("Physics").getRigidBodies()
-- [rigidBody("bat"), rigidBody("ball")]
put member("Physics").getSleepingBodies()
-- [rigidBody("ball")]
// JavaScript syntax
trace(member("Physics").getRigidBody("Ball"));
//
trace(member("Physics").getRigidBody("non-existant"));
// undefined
trace(member("Physics").getRigidBodies());
//
trace(member("Physics").getSleepingBodies());
//
Deleting a rigidBody
To delete a rigidBody from a Physics member, you can use deleteRigidBody().
-- Lingo syntax
vRB = member("Physics").getRigidBody("bat")put put member("Physics").deleteRigidBody(vRB)
-- 1
put member("Physics").deleteRigidBody("ball")
-- 0
// JavaScript syntax
vRB = member("Physics").getRigidBodies()[1];
member("Physics").deleteRigidBody(vRB);
1
vName = member("Physics").getRigidBodies()[1].name;
ball
member("Physics").deleteRigidBody(vName);
1
Note: Calling deleteRigidBody("aNonExistantBodyName"), and then attempting to create a rigidBody with that
name can lead to a script error.
Last updated 8/26/2011
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