set/unset parent

[D3CEPTION]

im trying to unset a parent to an entity after setting it this way:

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ent.set_parent(parententity.pointer)

this is how i would think to remove it, but doesnt work:

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ent.set_parent(Entity(0).pointer)

error is:

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Exception ignored in: <bound method __del__ of <entities.helpers.EntityMemFuncWrapper object at 0x2E838BC0>>
TypeError: No registered converter was able to extract a C++ pointer to type class CPointer from this Python object of type EntityMemFuncWrapper

my previous working method was this:

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parententity.targetname = "name"
ent.call_input("SetParent",parententity.targetname)
ent.call_input("SetParent","")

[D3CEPTION]

will ent.clear_parent() remove the parent?

[D3CEPTION]

okay clear_parent() actually does remove the parent correctly. the error i had was due to not setting the .model_name

[L'In20Cible]

You can directly pass an Entity instance to set_parent, no need to retrieve its pointer yourself.

[D3CEPTION]

is it also possible to check for a parents entity existance?

like this:

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if ent.parent:
    print("ent has parent")

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if ent.get_parent():
    print("ent has parent")

[satoon101]

We don't currently have parent in our entity data, but one of these properties will probably work (all a part of CBaseEntity). I'm unable to test, currently.

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    m_Network.m_hParent
    m_iParent
    m_pParent

[D3CEPTION]

yeah, im looking through some old code too where i used ent.get_property_int("m_pParent"). its btw returning the inthandle/-1.

might be worth adding .parent as playerentity imo

[L'In20Cible]

https://github.com/Source-Python-Dev-Te ... 559d3fbb7a