Little problem understanding types...
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| I have some problems understanding Types. I know that they are declared like this: Type TypeName Field myvar1, myvar2 End Type , and I know how to access them, but if this is like creating chairs, etc...where do script the Types? If I for example wants to create lots of cars which "lives in it's own world", and does what myvar1, and myvar2 says, where do I script the car that can be created with TypeName with variable myvar1, and myvar2? |
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| Read this : http://www.blitzcoder.com/cgi-bin/articles/show_article.pl?f=gamekrylar10192000.html And then read this : http://www.blitzcoder.com/cgi-bin/articles/show_article.pl?f=mutteringgoblin09232002232208.html All will become clear. |
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| That's the part I do understand (just read it). I do understand how I can declare the types, create new ones with the specific variablevalues, but how can I for example create 100 chairs (with all the coordinates, and stuff), if the chairs aren't loaded anywhere? That's what I can't understand. |
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| I find it very hard to believe you read all of both those articles and took it all in during the twelve minutes since I posted. In any case, you haven't take it all in, and you really need to read them through again, carefully. The explain it far better than I could. |
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| "but how can I for example create 100 chairs (with all the coordinates, and stuff), if the chairs aren't loaded anywhere? That's what I can't understand." something like this? for i = 0 to 99 c.chair = new chair c\Xpos = rnd(-100,100) c\Zpos = rnd(-100,100) c\name$ = "chair" +str(i) next however if you want to create each xpos and ypos manually you would need to do them manually or use an editor or maybe from some data. |
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| But where is LoadMesh("Chair.x")?, that makes the chair appear? Currently I'm using arrays to have many objects, and still control them. |
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| Put another field into the type, for example Field ChairMesh then do a c\ChairMesh=LoadMesh("Chair.x") or load a chairmesh into another mesh and do a CopyEntity for each one. |
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| when I need to update all of my types, i use this code For Type.Type = each Type [update code] Next But when I need to update one Type of this collection in particular, I select the type by one of its field, for instance : For Type.Type = each Type If Type\Name$ = "mark sibly" [update code] Endif Next My Level Editor and my Game are built on this principle and all seem to be perfect. |
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