Restore level without loadGame()

[akr]

I have a lot of tile based actors on my game level. They get moved/removed while playing.

Want to bring this game (bouldercrash) to iphone and android. Therefore I want to have one
datafile without loadGame() each time to restart.

Any ideas how I can restore actors even when they get destroyed during gameplay with less effort (for restart)?

[skydereign]

One way that will work is to build the levels through a global function. That way, to restart a level, or load any, delete the current level, and then recreate it. Pretty self explanatory I think. Now if you already created the levels within gameEditor, and not using a level array, then you can make the game create a text file with the proper values, which you can later copy into gameEditor and add the variable declaration.

You could also save them all into a text file, and load that up, but that wouldn't help too much either, as you want only one file.

[jimmynewguy]

Well sky your kinda right since he only said without the loadgame function (i think because it blacks the screen, ect.) so if he used external files (like such viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6011&p=49212&hilit=loading+maps#p49212) it would work the way i think he wants

[skydereign]

Well I suggested both methods, through script and through exterior files. For iphone/android it would be better to create the levels within global code, as you want to keep the number of files to one .dat and the save file.

[akr]

Thanks for all the good ideas. I am thinking about a way in the CreateActor() script. Btw: Right, I dont want to use external files.

The coolest thing would be a CreateActor() script which creates actors in the visible game area depending on a levelcount and
a activation regions.

So I hold lets say 10 levels in different activations regions. Advantage is a low memory consumption and reusability.

STOP: That doesnt work because activation areas get activated when visible. Dont want to have my original levels visible.

Hmmmmm.

I have a array of my playfield. But that holds only type of actor.

Question: When I use that array and I figure out the name of the actor. Can I then create that actor in the visible area?

Hmm, this array gets filled on start through the createActor() script. So in the beginning its empty. This is because I want to use ge as level editor.....