[Scripting] - Array of arrays not possible ?

[Blichew]

Hi there,

so I've been trying to store some values within array that consists of multiple arrays, like that:

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dest = {1 = { 1, 25, 12, 0},
		2 = { 1, 27, 12, 0}}

But this doesn't seem possible within Grimrock Editor. I keep getting this error:


Or I'm just doing something wrong ?

[NutJob]

just do:

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local a= {
	{1,2,3,4},
	{5,6,7,8}
}

if you're using numerical keys.

Associative works, so long as it's not what it numerical key would of been

So,

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local a= {
	red = {1,2,3,4},
	fish = {5,6,7,8}
}

is fine, too.


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If you need to reorder an assoc.table this may be helpful and I got something similar to this working.

[Blichew]

Thanks I forgot about the fact that

Associative works, so long as it's not what it numerical key would of been

[cameronC]

This is something I was trying out without much success and this has helped. So, I print(a.fish[3]) and it prints out 7.

How can I change it so a variable is used to determine what secondary values to pull from? Say, this is in a function that will be passed "red" or "fish" and I want to use that value as the secondary lookup in a?

[Jouki]

Thanks I forgot about the fact that

Associative works, so long as it's not what it numerical key would of been

OT: I guess it's for your teleporter scroll, isn't it? becasue it was first thing in my mind when I read your post about that

[Blichew]

Yeah, that why I was asking, it would be easier to define new teleporter scrolls
I think it's still readable in it's current form thou - maybe not so efficient (scripting-wise)...

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teleport_scroll_targets = {"teleport_scroll_1",1,25,12,0, -- {scrollID,level,X,Y,elevation}
                     "teleport_scroll_2",1,27,12,0}

[Zanzer]

Did you figure it out, or did you want something like:

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dest = {
  ["red"] = { 1, 25, 12, 0},
  ["fish"] = {1, 27, 12, 0}
}

[Blichew]

I left it the way it is for now:

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teleport_scroll_targets = {"teleport_scroll_1",1,25,12,0, -- {scrollID,level,X,Y,elevation}
                     "teleport_scroll_2",1,27,12,0}

and I just run for i=1,#teleport_scroll_targets. If value == teleport_scroll_x then it's params are like teleport_scroll_targets[i+1], teleport_scroll_targets[i+2] and so on.

I'll probably get back to it as soon as I find a while to clean up my scripts.

Thanks,
Blichew

[Leki]

For my dialog system I have this structure (simplified) and it works well, so you can adopt it I guess:

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dialogs = {
  npc01 = {
    line01 = {text = "Sentance 01.", dialog = "npc02"},
    line02 = {text = "Sentance 02.", dialog = "npc02"},
    line03 = {text = "Sentance 03.", dialog = "npc02"}
  },  

  npc02 = {
    line01 = {text = "Sentance 01.", dialog = "npc01"},
    line02 = {text = "Sentance 02.", dialog = "npc01"},
    line03 = {text = "Sentance 03.", dialog = "npc01"}
  }  
}