Question: say, I want to generate an animation with a script via script links. I want to instantiate a class and have that object perform a method each subsequent frame. I have the class definitions and the code all in the same text. How do I keep from instantiating a new object of that class with every frame and will the instantiated object remain available for subsequent frames?
(did I make myself clear? please let me know if not, to explain more carefully)
You could perhaps test for the presence of your object instance and code a bypass of the instantiation code if it already exists. Iterating through scene objects every frame might be (relatively) slow depending on scene size (in terms of object count) but it’s a means of finding an existing instance.
I can see no reason why the instance shouldn’t persist unless the code unlinks it for some reason.
A faster and probably more efficient method would be to do all the instantiation in an unlinked script, and have only the frame-by-frame methods scriptlinked.
see, I don’t know how to do that(yet?)
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