Arrays inside Actors?

[yttermayn]

I am writing a procedurally generated space exploration game. As each star is generated, I want to store some semi-random (seeded) values for the various attributes of orbiting planets, etc. Storing them in pre-defined single variables would be a hassle, it would be much easier to access them from an array that is local to the actor. However, when I try to add a variable with the 'variable button', it tells me arrays have to be global. If I manually declare it in the create actor script of a particular star where the data is to be kept, the array is only accessible from inside that script, and likely the data is lost when the create actor event is finished.
How do I give each star actor its own independent array?

[schnellboot]

2 dimensional arrays
or actor variable array

[yttermayn]

schnellboot:

In response to "2 dimensional arrays": I know what a 2 dimensional array is, but I do not understand how that helps me make a non-global array for an actor. Please elaborate.

In response to "actor variable array" How do you make an 'actor variable array'? Please note what I wrote above: "when I try to add a variable with the 'variable button', it tells me arrays have to be global"

Thank you.

[skydereign]

Sorry to say actor variables can't be an array. To elaborate on what schnell might have been getting at, you instead have to create a global two dimensional array. The first sub is for the clone, the other for the seeded variables each clone should have. So you can structure it like this, array[cloneindex][0]. Just make it big, and as long as you clean up the actors, it will never exceed your array size.

[schnellboot]

Sorry to say actor variables can't be an array. To elaborate on what schnell might have been getting at, you instead have to create a global two dimensional array. The first sub is for the clone, the other for the seeded variables each clone should have. So you can structure it like this, array[cloneindex][0]. Just make it big, and as long as you clean up the actors, it will never exceed your array size.

exactly.

[yttermayn]

I understand now. Thank you both. I had been tossing around a very similar idea myself after I posted last. Thanks again!