Unfortunately, I'm not done yet with spawning,

As with any game this complex, just adding a new complex feature without something breaking is always likely.

My crew's movement system runs on a step-timer, so that they can snap position to each hull piece and not vacuum/void themselves by leaving the ship.

Note: My ship doesn't have wall collisions, instead, I make the game check if something *can* leave. I do this with everything, including projectiles, they basically bounce off of nothing and stay within the ship's hull (with tolerance, its not perfect but it works).

Now you might be wondering why this relates to ship loading, well, when I spawn my ship, they don't have anywhere to snap to,

I know theres some kind of way to get around this, like temporarily deleting my crew ( saving them on a array ) and loading them back in within the hull.

Currently I have them teleport to the cockpit which isn't super reliable, because you can remove the cockpit and move it around, I don't wanna remove any of these capabilities as it makes ship creation more versatile.

I'll try to figure it out myself but Ill probably be back here asking for help on a solution to my loader to fix this.

Thanks for the in-depth, all of you had been a massive help.

I would send each of you a free copy of the final project but steam SDK for C2 is genuinely impossible to set up even with documentation and scouring the specific files needed with a time machine-website.

Doing it any other way, like with a repository like github, wouldn't be super attractive to download from, that plus they have a file size limit.

Anyway, back on the subject I have set up the entirety of spawning ships in since last night, ending it on part count logic, I quickly figured out you can get the size of the loaded file before spawning the ship from the paste-bin array,

comparing its width (X) and checking to see if the file is too large to insert into the layout.

Additionally, I have a part count limit which checks during a spawn attempt for redundancy.

It is still alittle finicky, like the entirety of this game.

Oh, and I was trying to figure out how to make sure you aren't spawning in parts you don't have/own, used my list which counts down each spawn, then checks if you still have any more of it, I first used this to spawn in parts one by one.

Only difference is I'm using it in conjunction with my spawning system to spawn multiples, with the correct location and Z order.

Here is the full script, anything hidden is just object listing, anyone copying this will have to include their own objects within those lists.

Variables with the number "2" with them I.E "PartCount2" are duplicated variables from the main project file, these will be deleted and replaced with the originals.

Hmm, what else, Trying to be thorough here, any suggestions?

Almost perfect! I am trying to work on the rest of the functionality so that you three aren't doing all of my homework, the saver is done, and half of the loader is done,

However I have run into an issue, It doesn't seem to be treating the armor pieces as separate instances, sending them to the same spot.

Now its entirely likely that I accidentally put them that way in the save file, but I'm quite sure I didn't.

Good news though, it read all of the data of the armor piece, spawned it and placed it in the correct location...

But uh, that's the correct location for one of the multiples of the same instance.

Perhaps I did something wrong?

Heres the loader portion of script:

Lmk if this looks right, it looks right to me and it seems to be adding a new entry, so now If I wanted to add the instance name ( which in this case since C2 doesn't have instance naming ) Ill just make a variable which does that for me.

so itll be, X, Y, ZIndex, InstanceName(A Variable containing the instance's name, because construct runs on reference, if I define what that instance is in the loop, I can set the value to the variable stored in the instance.)

When I start loading, I check the array, I look across its indexes for the name through a comparison, if object = object then spawn object, then I set the position of object with its other info.

Wait never mind I think I got it to work, I had to tinker around with it but it seems you set its size to zero,

but pushing back on the X axis with Armor.X adds a new entry, in my opinion is super weird.

Yeah it works and I sort of understand whats going on but it isn't very intuitive.

okay, so,

This is technically a C2 question, but the response time for C2 is incredibly slow.

And no, I'm not updating to C3 and this question is still valid in C3,

With that out of the way,

I have an array, this array will be used to store positional data ( X, Y, Zindex ) and the instance type as a string.

I haven't gotten to the string part, as it's a last step.

The point of the array is to save this data to a Json file, which I would then use; how is irrelevant.

I'm using this for a ship construction system where parts of a ship can be moved around and built, so obviously it would be nice to have a way to save your ship.

I picked this method as I can expand its functionality to whatever I want, character customization, ship customization, planets, whatever.

My issue:

I'm trying to save multiple object's positions to an array, unfortunately, every time I do, it saves it to only one row on the X axis, each row is supposed to be its own instance, the rest of its information is on the Y axis.

Heres the script:

Heres the result:

Heres how it should look like:

The last image ( how it should look like ), obviously has made up numbers, but it shows how I want it to look, By the way, I only roughly understand how to use arrays, I've been using tutorials, documentation,

and this is as far as I got; which is pretty far because it almost works.

So, how would I add information for each new entry?

I've tried " For each Element " couldn't get it to work as intended but thats likely because I misunderstood how its used.

To make this clear, I just want to know how to fix this issue, so try to stay on subject, I am well aware there are multiple methods to do this, and that there are also multiple ways I can carry this out from here, but to make sure your point is understood some help on this would be appriciated.

If you have to correct my use case, thats fine too; the goal is to learn.