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is there a way to get direct access to an actors variables when the name of the actor is a clone and is stored as a string?

example:

on the clone actor i create a actor variable string called myCloneName when it collides with a an actor named "whatever"

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sprintf(collide.myCloneName, "%s" clonename);

on the global code i create a function to try to get the variable to act as an actor name

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void myFunction()
{
    myCloneName.yvelocity-=5;

obviously the syntax is wrong so im wondering what is the right way to do this?

You can use the getclone function. getclone takes a string (a clonename) and returns an Actor* to the specified clone. Usually though people use a wrapper to getclone, so you just need to specify a name and a index.

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Actor*
getclone2 (char* cname, int cindex)
{
    char buffer[30];
    sprintf(buffer, "%s.%d", cname, cindex);
    return(getclone(buffer));
}

To use an Actor* you need to use ->, instead of actor.variable.

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Actor* test = getclone2("other_actor", 3);
test->r=0; // changes the other_actor.3's color

wow thats very confusing but i think i got it. ill get back to you once i try that out