Making sure I understand this right

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For the game I’m designing, I want enemies to randomly drop powerups and weapons with random statistics. For the weapons, each one will have a set of variables that must remain constant throughout the game. My idea was to make a new object for each weapon, and define the variables within the object (ex. sword1.attack = Math.Random()*10 (ignore any syntax errors if there are any))

The question is will this work, or am I misunderstanding how objects work. The way I understand it is that it would be like working with a movie clip (because a movie clip is an object).

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ya it will work if you have the attack set for each different weapon, so i would make a function like,


CreateWeapon(/*parameters*/){
var weapon:MovieClip=_root.attachMovie("Sword","Sword_"+_root.getNextHighestDepth(),_root.getNextHighestDepth())
weapon.attack=Math.round(Math.random()*10)
}

then just identify the weapon like, Weapon.attack, i don’t know how you are using your code so you would have to fit this to your needs and obviously “Weapon.attack isn’t in the right scope” well hope i answer your question

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Hmm, maybe I wasn’t clear, I wrote that late last night. I want the weapon (a sword in this example) to be able to travel from the ground, to my inventory, to my characters hands, and back to the ground without any of the variables changing. I know I can do this with arrays, but I feel it would be cleaner if I stored the data for one weapon in one place, where I can easily call it if I need it. I don’t want to store the data in an actual movie clip because what would happen to the data if the sword is in my inventory?

Edit: Ok, I started coding and ran into a problem. I want to name my objects based on data from an array, but the way objects are defined doesn’t seem to allow this (var name:Object = new Object()). I tried using square brackets around the array name (in a loop: var [name*]:Object = new Object) but that didn’t seem to help.

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ya exactly what my code is, the variable is stored on the weapon, you refernece it though the weapon.attack, you don’t need to work with objects to get this effect done

5

but how would you store the weapon in an inventory without physically moving it?

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well you start out with an array


var Inventory=[]

function NewItem(){
var item=_root.attachMovie("ItemLinkage","name"+_root.getNextHighestDepth(),_root.getNextHighetsDepth(),{attack:random(10)+1})
Inventory.push(item)
}
7

http://www.n99creations.com/?pID=archives&col=Blue&arch=Basic_RPG_Game_with_Inventory

A mod of that can do it.

8

Do you have to use push? I’ve been using array[array.length] and it seems to work :slight_smile:

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They are completely different things. Array.push; adds new values into an array, array[array.length]; just gets the last value in the array.

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I’ll use x as my array name instead:

x[x.length] would modify the index value after the last one. So if the array has two values (#'s 0 and 1) x.length wuld output two, and if I modify
x[2], then I’m adding a value. This is probably a terrible coding practice, and I’m taking advantage of flash’s flexible arrays, but it saves me fighting with push :).

11

its easier and less code to just use push and you way is horrible coding practice

myarray=new Array()

//the ways


myarray.push("2")

// or what would use it this way

myarray[myarray.length]="2"

which one is easier for you

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Why is it horrible coding practice, I bet that’s exactly how the push method adds items to the array :wink:

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It’s easy to change, so I’ll just use push to be safe. In any other language that kind of coding wouldn’t work :).

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because it just is horrible coding practice, that i what they have functions for array for…what “horrible coding practice” is in my eyes, something that could lead to errors or something that can be done easier, its an opionion in most part that is why i said before which one is easier for you, since its your choice if that s the way you want to write you array pushing techniques have it, but they making the functions for you so you don’t have to