How to determine Loot type of an Entity

[Padwan]

Hi All,

 

i'm trying to improve the salvage script or even better make a dedicated loot collection script but i can't quite figure out if there is any way to determine the loot type of a loot Entity (returned by Sector():getEntitiesByType(EntityType.Loot)).

I would like to prioritize collecting Turrets and System upgrades over colors and minerals. Entity.type seems to be always 8 and typename always says "Beute" so there seems to be no way of determining the exact loot type. Am i missing something here?

 

[Hammelpilaw]

EntityType.Loot is a constant, it will never change. Watch Enums section in Scripting API docs for more information.

This will get all entities of type loot in the current sector:

Sector():getEntitiesByType(EntityType.Loot)

 

Then you could do a for loop to find out wich kind of loot it is. Watch Entity section in docs. I never scripted with loot entities, so I don't know what exactly you could do with it, sorry.

 

[Padwan]

I found a solution..

 

Sector():getEntitiesByComponent(ComponentType.TurretLoot)

 

gets all Turret Loot. Works pretty well..