I can't find a way how to get an atom reference's values (image path etc.) into my theme template. When printing the node array I do get the SID for the referenced image, but I just don't know how to load the actual details.
Or is it possible by simply using node_load or entity_load or the like? Any pointers gladly appreciated.
Found the answer to my question one of scald's issue pages – and it's not really complicated. Either it's just not well documented, or I just didn't see it:
This gets the SID from the node's array:
$img = $vars['node']->field_teaser_image['und'][0]['sid'];
And this fetches the atom reference's object:
$atom = scald_atom_load($img);
This is how I then load the title of the atom reference image inside template.php:
$vars['img_title'] = $atom->title;
And the actual filename is inside another object base_entity:
$vars['img_filename'] = $atom->base_entity->filename;
Hope this may help somebody some day.