Iteration and object instancing

[Winter Warrior]

Edit: This issue is solved, thank you.

The main problem here is with syntax. What I'm trying to do is instancing Ogre::Entity* type objects in a for loop, but they all need to be uniquely named for the scene to render. Obviously, when the function reaches the Ogre::Entity* entity_name line, the string variable entity_name is replaced with an Entity type object (no longer a string).

The bottom line: Is there a way for the object instancing to read the contents of a string variable and name the new instance after the string content? Like Ogre::Entity* hex_deep_ocean_0 = ... where the hex_deep_ocean_0 part is retrieved from a string variable.

(Note: I've added short to string conversion code after that screenshot was taken. The string operations are working, I just don't know how I'm supposed to make object creation iterable.)

[prog-bman]

Are you just asking how to concat a string with an int?

std::ostringstream entityNameStream;
entityNameStream<<"hex_deep_ocean_"<<deep_oceans;

string enity_name = entityNameStream.str();

Your Orge stuff should be name different that your strings. See below

Orge::Entity* orge_entity_name = mSceneMgr->createEntity(entity_name, "blah");

[Winter Warrior]

Are you just asking how to concat a string with an int?

std::ostringstream entityNameStream;
entityNameStream<<"hex_deep_ocean_"<<deep_oceans;

string enity_name = entityNameStream.str();

Your Orge stuff should be name different that your strings. See below

Orge::Entity* orge_entity_name = mSceneMgr->createEntity(entity_name, "blah");

Wish it was that simple. The code does compile right, but the .exe crashes when it's supposed to render the scene. The graphics engine probably doesn't like having 80 entities called ogre_entity_name in the scene. But they're pointers, they're deleted after the for cycle ends, so that shouldn't be a problem... I'll have to sleep on it, too tired to think straight.

Thanks for the help.

[salquestfl]

You cannot dynamically assign names to new instances because the names of identifiers is a compile-time mechanism.
I think you are confusing the unique identifier of an object and uniqueness of the object. You can allocate new unique objects using a same identifier as you are doing in a loop. I suspect the problem is somewhere else.

[Winter Warrior]

You cannot dynamically assign names to new instances because the names of identifiers is a compile-time mechanism.
I think you are confusing the unique identifier of an object and uniqueness of the object. You can allocate new unique objects using a same identifier as you are doing in a loop. I suspect the problem is somewhere else.

Yeah, I came to the same conclusion this morning when I was reading through the code. The map is now rendering correctly, problem solved. Thanks to everyone for helping.