Brainstorm Best Way to Store and Use 'Race' Variables

[Gnuoy]

I'm working on a new small project that will create starting units based on a players race.

My first idea was store race as variable then use a ton of if statements to create the right units for the player. Anyone have more efficient ideas before I go through with this?

Thank you for reading.

 

[Uncle]

Arrays and/or Hashtables will pretty much always be the solution. An index can represent a Race and it's values can be associated with the Race.

And the easiest method that comes to mind would be to use a Trigger and Race array to do something along the lines of this:

Setup trigger:

• Set Variable Race_Type[1] = Human
• Set Variable Race_Type[2] = Orc
• Set Variable Race_Trigger[1] = Spawn Human Units <gen>
• Set Variable Race_Trigger[2] = Spawn Orc Units <gen>
• Set Variable Race_Total = 2

Player has picked a race and is spawning in trigger:

• Set Variable PLAYER = (The player)
• Set Variable PN = (Player number of PLAYER)
• For each Integer LOOP from 1 to Race_Total do
  • Loop - Actions
    • If (Race of PLAYER) Equal to Race_Type[LOOP] then Trigger - Run Race_Trigger[LOOP] (ignoring conditions)

You would switch Race_Type to an Integer variable or String variable if you plan on having custom races.

A specific race trigger:

• Spawn Human Units
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit - Create 5 Footman for PLAYER at PLAYER_START_POINT[PN] facing...