Complex arrays

Yann Animmaniac

Ok I see, but it's not what I want, so I explain better myself.

I am accostomed to "normal" game engines where I could select an object by its name regardless if there were 0,1 or 1000 with the same name.

I basically have this.

I'm selecting a string out of 50 with tokenat.

On the layout there are 50 insvisible object (all on the same position) which have the same name as the 50 possitble strings that I select with token.

I need to: select "string from tokenat" object -> set visible

I think it should be possible to do this but I can't find a solution.. I mean I should put 50 if condition but it's a tedious and stupid way of working the problem.

Ideas?

Thanks

Ok, I think we are running in circle, you should describe a bit more about your game, the solution might be quite simple, but just asking for some specific feature might not be the correct angle to tackle this problem.

You want to select only one of those 50 objects and make it visible, or you want to select all objects?

It's the second time the forum errors me and I lose 10 minutes of writing..

Yann I'll try to explain myself better.

I'm making an educational application for handicapped children and I need to procedurally generate a question on startup.

Let's make an example:

var pool = "book,table,spoon,lamp";

var answer = tokenat( pool , floor( random( tokenCount(pool ,",") ) ), "," );

//On the layout there are four hidden objects called (book,table,spoon,lamp) each of them has at least 10 frames, so I can't create only one object and then calling a random frame.

I now need to: System set object called answer visible

Basically I have 50 invisible objects and I need to make one visibile.

Animmaniac only one of those 50 objects and make it visible

You could very well use only a single sprite with different animations.

On startup you select a random instance and set it to use the animation of your choice.

Capx for creating a random anim Sprite

Now what you want is to have sprites already spawnt along the layout apparently.

Commented capx for this

Damn I've been Kyat ninja'd

/On the layout there are four hidden objects called (book,table,spoon,lamp) each of them has at least 10 frames, so I can't create only one object and then calling a random frame.

You can... And you should!

Basically I would setup the layout this way:

A Sprite called 'item' in which you put your animation of book,table,spoon,lamp.

Name the animations properly.

Then if you want to call a random object

System: Create item
item: set animation to tokenat( pool , floor( random( tokenCount(pool ,",") ) ), "," );

item: is animation "spoon" is playing
  -> item: start animation from current frame

Yann, Kyatric as usual thanks.

I see there's always a solution to my problems, next time I'll approach the problem with a different attitude.

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