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How would I go about saving arrays that have multiple dimensions?

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arra[type][number[value]


I'm planning on having a weapon system that has stats based off this. For example:

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int ITEM_ARRAY[type][ID_number][Cost][stat1][stat2][stat3][stat4][stat5][stat6][stat7][stat8][stat9]


If there is a better way of doing this I'd love to know it

Shouldn't you just do: int array[256][256][10]

So if you wanted to access the cost of weapon no. 42, you would just do: array[whatever number weapons are][42][0]

Not sure if that's what you meant^^

I understand ^^ Gag explained to me in a PM.

If I'm right, question is "how to save multi-dimentional array using savevars function ?". If it's so, then:
You know, that GE supports only saving/loading one-dimentional arrays created in special dialog window with setting "Save group"

My way is:

1. For example you have 10 types of weapon (counted from 0 to 9). Each weapon have 12 parameters:[type][ID_number][Cost][stat1]...[stat9].
So, we create an array with dimention 10x12, save group "weapons".


Now we can save/load it.

2. While using such an array it's convenient to get access this way:

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ITEM_ARRAY[Type*12]       =... ;  // weapon type
ITEM_ARRAY[Type*12+1]   =... ;  // ID_number
ITEM_ARRAY[Type*12+2]   =... ;  // Cost
ITEM_ARRAY[Type*12+3]   =... ;  // stat1
...
ITEM_ARRAY[Type*12+11]  =... ;  // stat9

Described method is best that i found. I use it to work with galaxy map of 40 stars with 25 parameters each.
Hope it helps

Wow thats genius thanks

or you could use the file writting functions and use loops to save multi dimensional arrays. Though usually this limits each numbers to 0-255 unless you use tricks to save more than one byte

true :3

Leif wrote:If I'm right, question is "how to save multi-dimentional array using savevars function ?". If it's so, then:
You know, that GE supports only saving/loading one-dimentional arrays created in special dialog window with setting "Save group"

My way is:

1. For example you have 10 types of weapon (counted from 0 to 9). Each weapon have 12 parameters:[type][ID_number][Cost][stat1]...[stat9].
So, we create an array with dimention 10x12, save group "weapons".

weapon_system_array.png

Now we can save/load it.

2. While using such an array it's convenient to get access this way:

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ITEM_ARRAY[Type*12]       =... ;  // weapon type
ITEM_ARRAY[Type*12+1]   =... ;  // ID_number
ITEM_ARRAY[Type*12+2]   =... ;  // Cost
ITEM_ARRAY[Type*12+3]   =... ;  // stat1
...
ITEM_ARRAY[Type*12+11]  =... ;  // stat9

Described method is best that i found. I use it to work with galaxy map of 40 stars with 25 parameters each.
Hope it helps

Is this also the easiest way to save variables for 2 dimensional string? I find it pretty tricky to do so there. Like for instance I'm making a leaderboard thing with names in it right now without struct since I'm not sure how to save struct in gE.