Custom tile data

#1 No, it would save a number encoded in a string which is all you've assigned really, not the object, its fields and other referenced objects and so on. Custom-data is just a string in the end, no matter what you put in it.

Objects in TGE are just numbers, the ones you can get explcitly in script using something like "%tileInfo.getId()".

- Melv.

#2 I'll just add that I gave some thought on how people can save associated script data/objects alongside the standard load/save stuff and there are a number of ways to potentially achieve this but it wasn't something that I got around to doing.

- Melv.

#3 Thanks Melv. Well then, I suppose I'll just have to do something like

%tileInfo = %tileType SPC %tilePlayer;
%tileLayer.setTileCustomData(%tileXY, %tileInfo);

and then be like

%tileInfo = %tileLayer.getTileCustomData(%tileXY);
%tileType = getWord(%tileInfo, $TILE_INFO_TYPE);
%tilePlayer = getWord(%tileInfo, $TILE_INFO_PLAYER);

right?

#4 I'm not sure what the info is that you're saving here. All I'm really saying is that this option saves a string, not objects as you assigned them in your first post. All you'll end up saving in that case is the object id, not its number. You certainly won't get a new ScriptObject constructed when you retrieve the data, just the old object ID which probably won't exist when you do.

Make sense or have I missed what you're really asking? I do that. ;)

- Melv.

#5 No I understand what you're saying Melv, the solution I gave in my second post is different, I'm now saving a vector and using the getWord() function to access the data. That's fine right?

#6 As long as you understand that saving an object ID doesn't save the object, you're fine. Encode anything you like as the string and it should work.

- Melv.

#7 K thx for the help. I'm just saving a string now, no more objects :)

#8 Cool. :)