Entity Reference Component

The Entity Reference component allows you to track one or more entity IDs that you can conveniently access through script or C++ code during editor mode.

Provider

Atom Gem

Properties

Entity Reference Component UI

Property	Description
EntityIdReferences	Contains a list of entities whose IDs will be tracked.

Usage

During editor mode, call the EntityReferenceRequestBus to retrieve the list of entities being referenced by the component. This example uses the O3DE’s Python Console to retrieve a list of entity IDs.

# entityId contains the Entity Reference component.
entityIdReferences = azlmbr.entity.EntityReferenceRequestBus(azlmbr.bus.Event, 'GetEntityReferences', entityId)
 
for id in entityIdReferences:
    print(id.ToString())
 
 
# Expected Output: Entity IDs of the referenced entities.
# [3664549435643349363]
# [17340279414445478303]