blueprint name for new squad or entity?

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For a map script I want to see whether a mod is in use, and the first way that occurs to me is to use EBP_Exists for some custom entity in the mod. I've seen the instructions for prepending your mod's ID to the entity's name, but I don't see how to specify the entity's name so that the script can find the blueprint.

I see that the Attribute Editor will let you export luaconstsauto.scar for the mod, but it does not have the new entities and squads in it.

Anyone know how to reference a new squad or entity from a script?

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Your mod's ID (without dashes), then a colon, then the blueprint.

Example:

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BP_GetSquadBlueprint("94e80b04a136401b963d3806d5b13ef4:fuesilier_squad_mp")

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I was wondering how to find the name of "fuesilier_squad_mp". Without a faction, there could be duplicates.

However, I think I can use World_GetPossible{Squads,Entities}Blueprint to iterate over everything in the mod, and output the blueprint names. I'll probably try that tonight.

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Blueprints are unique per type (squad, entity, etc), and per mod (presumably).

Here is a utility function you might find useful:

-- @param  blueprintFunction  Relic function that will retrieve a blueprint

-- @param  blueprintName  Name of the blueprint to be retrieved

-- @return  blueprint if it exists; nil otherwise

function getBlueprintIfItExists(blueprintFunction, modID, blueprintName)

	local exists, blueprint = pcall(blueprintFunction, modID .. ":" .. blueprintName);

 

	if ( exists == false ) then

		blueprint = nil;

	end

 

	return blueprint;

end

Usage:

local squadBlueprint = getBlueprintIfItExists(BP_GetSquadBlueprint, "94e80b04a136401b963d3806d5b13ef4", "fuesiliers_mp");



if ( squadBlueprint ) then

	-- do stuff with squadBlueprint

end

You could wrap it further like so:

function getSquadBlueprintIfItExists(modID, blueprintName)

	return getBlueprintIfItExists(BP_GetSquadBlueprint, modID, blueprintName);

end

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So if one faction has ...whatever...\combat_engineers in its archive, there won't be a ...somethingelse..\combat_engineers ? And you can just use "combat_engineers" as the short blueprint name?