Get Object of Near Sensor?

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1

I am creating the homing attack for my Sonic game, and I have setup like this:

Near (prop: enemy) ------- [python] -------- (steering)

The python script basically says this:


if near.positive:
        steering target = object that activated near
        cont.activate(attack)

The only problem with this is that I don’t know how to get the name of the object that activated the near sensor. Does anyone know how to do this?

2

It should just be near.hitObject to get the name shouldn’t it?

3

As scuba111223 say, the near sensor have a attribute, the “hitObject” returns a KX_GameObject of the object that activate the sensor, so you can use it:


if near.hitObject:
    object = near.hitObject

    #Example
    object.setParent("other_object") #You can use directly a KX_GameObject

    cont.activate("attack") #the activate function also accept a string.
4

Yeah, that worked. Thanks!

5

Be aware, the near sensor detects multiple objects (hitObjectList).