Do tables clear themselves on a scene reset?
owen_dennis
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I have a game where the majority of the gameplay takes place in one scene. I have a number of enemies that get randomly spawned and many of them use hitboxes, so I have a rule set up to let each enemy creates a new row to store its hitbox x y information. When I reset the level, do those tables get cleared of all that information? I just want to know so I'm not filling up tables, then when the level resets, those tables have a whole bunch of worthless information in them taking up space. It only just occurred to me that they might be keeping that information because they're a game attribute and not a scene attribute.
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Tables do not reset unless you exit the app and re-launch it. Best practice is to copy the table you're using into a separate table (as a backup) and then when you need to reset the level, copy that table back into the main table you're using in your rules.
Cool, thanks for the info! Yeesh though, I've got like 7 tables that would need copying. Would copying a bunch of tables every time you restart a scene significantly impact performance?
I wouldn't worry about it. Or rather, try it and see. Setting up two Copy Table behaviors for each of the 7 tables isn't really that much work.