I am of course aware of the fact that while you can define the cog as an object in symbols, you cannot define the actualy cog per se. My first question is, then, how in the Empire are you supposed to define a cog? (note: I'm not too familiar with triggers, either)

Here's a symbol definition in a cog I 'inherited' from the old RoX TC leadership, but I cannot make any sense of how to implement this, or make one of my own.



I a demo testing environ that was also included, this SendMessage();s the user0 command to 'example.cog'. But cone again, this leads to some confusion...

Does example_cog = example.?

Thus, I am in a bit of a quandry, and desire to learn how to send messages properly between cogs.

Don't make it local and add it in JED. I'm not sure, but make . For a weapon, you use I know all ways work except the middle one. You could use this in a trigger system.

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You can only define a cog in the symbols section through a JKL. That example code you have doesn't work.

In the code section, you can assign your cog variable to any verb that returns a cog value. Such as GetThingClassCog(), GetInvCog(), and GetThingCaptureCog().

So to send a message to kyle.cog, you would use: SendMessage(GetThingClassCog(player), user0). Or you can use any cog value for the first parameter.

Triggers don't involve cog variables because the trigger will be received by all cogs with a trigger message.

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(prop being a random template with a cog assigned to it)

Would that work?

Secondly, I have a cog that I just impleneted into my level (without any symbols referencing anything ingame). How would I send a message to that?

And how would I send a message to an inventory item cog in my Resource patch from my level?

...anyone else?

Just add this. and add a user0 to the target cog. Use JED.

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...? huh?

Let's reexplain this. Here's a small cog. Sends a message to the target cog when a switch is activated. One time use only. Set the target cog in JED. I don't know how to take screenshots in JED to show you. If you could tell me, I could show you.

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Yes, you could define the cog in the level, but that's not the problem.

Change GetClassCog() to GetThingClassCog().



A trigger would do better there. Use SendTrigger() to send a trigger, and have the trigger message in the target cog receive it.



Use GetInvCog() to return a reference to the cog. So:



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