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Is there a way you can make it so an a value of something can be several different types of numbers? As in lets say I wanted an attribute to be either equal to 1, 5, 20, 14, or 23. How could I do that?

Socks

Stick the numbers in a table and select them from that.

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Socks said:

Stick the numbers in a table and select them from that.

I'm a bit new with tables, would it be possible for you to give me an example or video on how to do this?

Socks

Google / Youtube: 'GameSalad tabels'

There are a lot of videos out there . . . Start with this one:

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Socks said:

Google / Youtube: 'GameSalad tabels'

There are a lot of videos out there . . . Start with this one:

Alright, thank you!

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Socks said:

Google / Youtube: 'GameSalad tabels'

There are a lot of videos out there . . . Start with this one:

I watched the video, and I think I did what it said, but I keep getting the number zero. I'm trying to get an object to move in different directions, the angle of each direction I want is on a table. here's the code:

tableCellValue( game.TB angles ,random(1,tableRowCount( game.TB angles )),1)

the numbers I have in the table are:

160
20
30
40
150
140
130

all of them are in one column. Do you know what I'm doing wrong?

tatiang

You have it set up correctly. Did you select the table name from the menu in both cases rather than typing it in?

Can you post a screenshot of your rules?

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tatiang said:

You have it set up correctly. Did you select the table name from the menu in both cases rather than typing it in?

Can you post a screenshot of your rules?

I did not type it in, although I think it would be useful if you could. Here's a screenshot of what I did:



Here's a screenshot of the table in case you need to look at that too:

tatiang

Yep, still looks right. If I had to guess I'd say that using a random number function and a row count function inside of a tableCellValue function is your problem. I know other people have said that can work, but I'd recommend (at least for debugging statements) that you separate everything out:

Change Attribute self.Rows to tableRowCount(tableName)
Change Attribute self.Random to random(1,self.Rows)
Change Attribute self.Direction to tableCellValue(tableName,self.Random,1)

Does that work?

Socks

tatiang said:

Yep, still looks right. If I had to guess I'd say that using a random number function and a row count function inside of a tableCellValue function is your problem.

Yep, you are often better off generating the random number outside of an expression.

So rather than:

If X then do Y*(random 1,10)

Try:

Make A = (random 1,10)
If X then do Y*(A)

lewisone

tables are a great way, I might even do it dumbed up a bit and in a rule say when attribute is equal to a number , and add as many or conditions as you like to be equal to other things as well... Just a thought.