I have a few questions about using entities in V27.

- How can I use an internal entity function (entity.whatever) on an existing, MapEd created entity?

- Can and/or how I move an entity by directly changing its x and y values? If so, then if I move a map-obstructable entity by changing its values onto an obstruction, what will happen?

- What kind of collisions does entity.DetectCollision() detect?

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- Yes. The engine creates a dictionary of entities that live on the map when it loads it, called 'map.entities'. To make some entity or other do something, you can do so:

map.entities['Bob'].Move('U32') # walk 32 pixels upwards

Note that the name, (Bob in this case) is set in the 'name' field of the entity editor within winmaped. Be sure to give each entity a unique name! Eventually, the engine will detect redundant names and auto-change them on its own, but until then, it's up to you. :)

- Yes. Just set their values like any other varaible. This is *unconditional*. The entity is moved precisely where you move it, regardless of map/entity placement.

- Entity/entity collisions. I've found that iterating through a loop in Python to detect such a collision is agonizingly slow. So I provided an interface to a loop implemented in C, which is much, much faster. ^_~

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