[Rejected] Proposal: Renaming Entities to Actors

[xezno]

What

I'm thinking of renaming entities to actors. There are no functional changes to this, it's just a rename.

• Anything prefixed or suffixed with Entity is replaced with Actor, e.g. BaseEntity -> BaseActor
• On the native side:
  • g_entityDictionary also becomes g_actorManager
  • Entity flags become ACTOR_FLAG_X instead of ENTITY_X

Why

• Actor is pretty close to the beginning of the alphabet (closer than Entity)
• It's the terminology Unreal uses, which is rapidly becoming one of the biggest engines in the world... this would make it easier for people to switch to/from Mocha

When

Ideally this would happen after the "networking" branch gets merged, because that branch will probably change a lot of entity stuff. That being said, there's already an "actors" branch if you want to go check it out.

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[Xenthio]

I feel like Actor implies that something is on screen, So in my opinion the name Actor would fit better for a ModelEntity rename or something, instead of all entities

[xezno]

I agree

[lannior]

"Entity" is vague and that's why it's better in my opinion.
"Actor" implies something living, on screen.

I don't want my gun, ammo box or treasure chest to be an actor. ModelActor also sounds considerably worse than ModelEntity, since actor already sorta implies having a model?

Not a big fan of renaming ModelEntity to Actor either, it will just make things more confusing.

[xezno]

Noted