Adjective Forms: I'm Talking About You

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‌Adjective Forms: I'm Talking About You

It can be helpful to talk about certain metaobjects, especially trackers, using adjectives. You've already seen some adjectives used, such as

lock, export, and flash the teal trackers.

Or, you might

delete the far trackers.

The phrase far trackers means this:

the trackers where the far status equals far

in other words, the trackers where a metaattribute equals a metavalue .

The named metavalue (far) is being used as an adjective, and you can use any metavalue as an adjective for any kind of metaobject that has a metaattribute with that possible value.

There are quite a few syntactic rules available with adjectives, encompassing many different forms.

selected meshes

unlocked far trackers // those that are BOTH unlocked AND far red or blue trackers

trackers that are red or blue

purple trackers where the error is over 2

selected match trackers with a lifetime of 10 or more

Exercise: what does flash red and blue trackers really mean?

Exercise: what does flash trackers that are red and blue do?

Some adjective forms sort the objects, for example,

first exportable tracker

first five exportable trackers

ten trackers that are far with the lowest error

Exercise: find ten longest-lived trackers

Given the number of adjective forms, you should just try what you want, and if Synthia doesn't understand it, try a somewhat different phrasing. (The rules defining adjective syntax are probably more complex for you to decipher easily!)

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