Poor "Sammy" - been waiting 16 hours for an answer. To start the ball rolling:
I've never used 'GetChild' - I found it to be a bit hit and miss and never used it since.
I manually do my FindChilds by looking at the mesh in something like Ultimate Unwrap, etc - to get the names of the bones. You use it like this 'head_ent=FindChild(Entity,bone name)
So, 'head_ent' is whatever you want to call it - it could be 'head_player', or 'playerhead' (assuming the bone is a head) , whatever (just like naming an entity). The FindChild command takes the entity's name - ie the name you used to load it into Blitz - and the second paramater in quotes is the name of the bone.
So, if I had a zombie which I loaded in as 'zombie' and it had a bone called 'L_Thigh' - I'd use (for example) 'l_thigh_zombie=FindChild(zombie,"L_Thigh"). You are basically just creating a new entity reference out of an existing entity - sort of indexing to a particular bone.
You can automatically iterate through an entity to get its bones - but I don't do it as I found variable results in trying it, I find it easier to load it into a modelling package and make a note of the bones myself and manually do it.
EntityPickMode is a really big topic, coz there are tons of uses for it. You may have a working example with your installation though - there was a demo called 'Dungeon Trigger' in the 'Open DNA' folder in Blitz 3D Samples.
I've never used 'GetChild' - I found it to be a bit hit and miss and never used it since.
I manually do my FindChilds by looking at the mesh in something like Ultimate Unwrap, etc - to get the names of the bones. You use it like this 'head_ent=FindChild(Entity,bone name)
So, 'head_ent' is whatever you want to call it - it could be 'head_player', or 'playerhead' (assuming the bone is a head) , whatever (just like naming an entity). The FindChild command takes the entity's name - ie the name you used to load it into Blitz - and the second paramater in quotes is the name of the bone.
So, if I had a zombie which I loaded in as 'zombie' and it had a bone called 'L_Thigh' - I'd use (for example) 'l_thigh_zombie=FindChild(zombie,"L_Thigh"). You are basically just creating a new entity reference out of an existing entity - sort of indexing to a particular bone.
You can automatically iterate through an entity to get its bones - but I don't do it as I found variable results in trying it, I find it easier to load it into a modelling package and make a note of the bones myself and manually do it.
EntityPickMode is a really big topic, coz there are tons of uses for it. You may have a working example with your installation though - there was a demo called 'Dungeon Trigger' in the 'Open DNA' folder in Blitz 3D Samples.