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[bbdude95]

I am trying to input a tilemap for my game but i dont really know how to continue on the loading part. Any help or ideas would be much appreciated.

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function saveTileMap()
	local map = {   
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
	}
	local strg = "map = {\n"
	for x = 1, #map do 
		strg = strg .. "\t{ "
		for y = 1, #map[1] do
			strg = strg .. tostring(map[x][y])
			if y < #map[1] then 
				strg = strg .. ", "
			end
		end
		strg = strg .. " },\n"
	end
	strg = strg .. " \n}"
	file = love.filesystem.newFile( "map.lua" )
	file:open('w')  
	--file:write(Tserial.pack(map,map, true))
	file:write( strg )
	file:close()
end

[micha]

The saved file is source code in Lua (if everything went right). To load, you have to load the file's content into a chunk and run it:

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love.filesystem.load('filename')()

[bbdude95]

I have this in my code:

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chunk = love.filesystem.load("map.lua")()
local result = chunk()

but if i wanted to pull out a specific row/column in a file how would i do that?
EX: getting the 2nd row and 3rd column value
0,0,0,0,0
0,0,5,0,0
0,0,0,0,0

[Robin]

but if i wanted to pull out a specific row/column in a file how would i do that?

In your case:

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map[2][3]

Now, the way you've set it up, loading a map file overwrites a global called map, which might be problematic. If you change the line local strg = "map = {\n" to local strg = "return {\n", then after loading result will point to the map, and you can access a specific cell with result[2][3].

[raidho36]

Here, have a read:

http://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html

[bbdude95]

but if i wanted to pull out a specific row/column in a file how would i do that?

In your case:

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map[2][3]

Now, the way you've set it up, loading a map file overwrites a global called map, which might be problematic. If you change the line local strg = "map = {\n" to local strg = "return {\n", then after loading result will point to the map, and you can access a specific cell with result[2][3].

So i did as you said and now i am just faced with this error(i think once i fix this everything will work): main.lua:34: attempt to index local 'result' (a nil value)
I know what it means but i don't know where the problem is stemming from.

[Robin]

That is a .RAR. I can't open that. More people will be able to help you if you make it a .ZIP file.

[raidho36]

You can easily tell if someone is russian if they send you archives in RAR format. Another obvious clue is them sending you arrays of parenthesis instead of emoticons.

[bbdude95]

Sorry about that. Here is my .lua main file and a .zip.

[Robin]

For some reason, you haven't included your map.lua file. What I think what happened is that your map.lua doesn't return anything, but because it's not there, I can't check.