Is it possible to specify a table by number and count the rows/columns?

tatiang

I have created a 3D maze game (tables are amazing and I can't wait for writeable tables) and I am checking the maze boundaries by counting the rows and columns of the maze layout table for each level. It works great for level 1, but now I am ready to increment game.currentlevelnumber to 2 and I want to count the rows and columns from a different table (e.g. "Level2Maze"). Is there a way to automate this? Here's how I've set things up:

game.playerX is the column value within the maze (so if I started at column 1 and moved "east" one step, I am now at playerX=2).
In a maze with 6 columns, I want the player to not move past the 5th column, as the 6th column is the external wall of the maze.

When attribute playerX = tableColCount(game.Level1Maze)-1 --> do not allow the player to move that direction

So what I really want to be able to do is:

When attribute playerX = tableColCount(table:game.currentlevelnumber)-1 --> do not allow the player to move that direction

GLGAMES

i'm making a maze like game with tables too.
however i have yet to try it but i think my way would be whenever a new level needs loading changed table name to the next level's table name by using a game text attribute. Will try it out myself too later :P

GreenHavenGames

Check out Deep Blue Apps recent template on this subject! This is some exciting stuff. If you haven't checked out their site, they have some really great tools available.

http://www.deepblueapps.com/Deep_Blue_Ideas_Ltd./GSTemplateFR_TBC.html

In case you're wondering, I am just a happy customer, sharing a valuable tool.

Sam

tatiang

Sam, thanks for the suggestion. I had downloaded that very template and decided to try my hand at maze creation before looking at the template. I was happy with my table-to-3D-maze code, so I went back and checked out that template. While it's very cool, it doesn't address my issue. The template is reading a single table for a single scene. I want to read multiple maze tables for a single scene. In order to do this, I need to be able to either increment a table #/ID or select a table by name. I don't see any way to do that, as my testing of tableCellValue, tableColCount, and tableRowCount return "Invalid Expression" when I try to use a named table such as tableCellValue("MazeLevel1",1,1). Named rows and columns work great... why not named tables?