GameStudio does not persist the Name property of a scene asset

[ahrenm]

It seems the "Name" property of scenes is not getting carried over from the asset name to the actual object properties.

Repo in 2.0.2.1

1. Create a new scene asset
2. F2 and rename the scene
3. Save project
4. Open the .xkscene file, Name property is not being persisted.
5. Query the Name property at runtime, all loaded scenes return a name of "Scene"

It's not a show stopper, but it makes it harder to walk the scene tree at runtime end makes Entity.Scene.Name ineffective as a way of identifying which scene an entity is in.

A.

[Kryptos-FR]

Hello. Thanks for the report.

For historical reason each ComponentBase (including Entity and Scene) have a Name property. But only the Name for entities is serialized. For other components it is used for debugging purpose. We will consider renaming the property to DebugName and have a dedicated Name property for Entity.

In your case, you can get the asset url of a scene from the ContentManager:

// For example in a script attached to an entity
string url;
if (Content.TryGetAssetUrl(Entity.Scene, out url))
{
    // ...
}

[ahrenm]

Thanks for that, it is certainly a viable approach.

In multi scene setups the scene is a fairly high level container so having names for them would be a nice to have, but obviously not critical. Does make it easier to wrap & write code like: UnloadScene("IntroLevel"); Which is nice and clean in what it does.

There are obviously other ways to implement that, but it's some food for thought.

Thanks for the reply.