Not enough Alterable Values...

[jellytot]

Hi all,

I'm in the middle of designing a game. It's a turn-based space strategy game which each side has little ships.

The problem is, each little ship has a LOT of stats.

Each ship has 6 shield vectors, several different weapons and other ship stats. There is far more variables than the 26 max AV each object is allowed.

So... I got creative. Each Active Object also has 10 Alterable Strings, so I figure why not stuff a bunch of stats into each string and then when I need the stat return the Index of the position of the stat I need in a specific string for that object.

But... using this method accessing data (using the Tolken object) is relativly easy. But SETTING the data in this manner is not.

So I divided up my ship stats into dynamic and static variables, and the dynamic variables use the Alterable Values.

But I'm out of Alterable Values... Does anyone have a solution for me? I like using AV because I can directly reference data for a specific object... but there's not enough AV. I could put the ship data into some sort of data object, but then how do I (easily) access the data and have it refer to a specific ship instance?

Ideas?

JT

[SEELE]

hmm, there are ALOT of ways, one way is rather then use the string tolkeniser use the string parser... this allos you to dirrectly set a specific element/value.

you cauld also use a 2d array with x going up to 99999 and y to how ever many values you need.\

Then when setting a value set an array value at x=object fixed value and y to value index eg. (2= shield)...

...and the same for reading values.

Best of luck.

[InsertNameHere]

There is an extension called value add which adds an unlimited number of alterable values to an object. You can download it here: http://ext.neatwares.ath.cx/ext/ValueAdd

I hope this solves your problem.