Objectify Find

[Denneisk]

Have a Find object that works like effects, where you set its fields before triggering an operation. This would allow

• Instanced find operations with their own whitelists and results
• Restructuring these new find operations to be more idiomatic
• Deprecating the somewhat confusing current way of finding things

[Vurv78]

The worst thing about the find library is the quota. A new system having dynamic op counts based on the amount of filters would be great.

Ideally as I sort of joked on discord, you'd just be able to do the filtering yourself with lambdas, but we don't have them yet.

local PropsInSphere = allEntities()
    :filter(E => E:pos():distance(Point) < 500)
    :filter(E:type() == "prop_physics")

So I guess if this is done without lambdas, this would be my ideal:

local PropsInSphere = findAllEntities() # Returns a `findquery` type
    :inListOfEntities(Array)
    :inSphere(Pos, Radius)
    :notInSphere(Pos, Radius)
    :withClass(String)
    :withoutClass(String)
    :withOwner(Entity)
    :withoutOwner(Entity)
    :query() # returns array of results. should store the query object to run this repeatedly.

Basically for the naming scheme:

• in* methods for the current findIn*
• with* methods for including entities with specific property, like class, owner, etc
• without* methods for negated version of with* methods
• not* methods for negated versions of the created methods

[Denneisk]

That's pretty solid.

[Vurv78]

Turns out E2 bans use of this syntax since methodcalls have a restriction on whitespace.

Will need to change that

[Denneisk]

Who needs it? Just have one really long line instead :^)

[Fasteroid]

SEX

[Fasteroid]

YES PLEASE