[Spell] Saving a hero unit with his spells efficiently

[VicALV]

Hi hive!.

I created this thread because need help to create a system to save hero unit with his spells.

I want to access to data like this =>

Hero[0] = Arthas
Hero[0]_spells[0] = Heal
Hero[0]_spells[1] = Armor
Hero[0]_spells[2] = DamageX2

Hero[1] = Madthas
Hero[1]_spells[0] = Damage
Hero[1]_spells[1] = Huge Damage
Hero[1]_spells[2] = Suicide

But dont want use a lot of arrays

I triyed this form either

Hero[id] = Hero
Spells[(hero_id*MaximumNumberOfSpells+1)+spell_index] = Spell(s)

Result

Hero[0] = Arthas
Spells[(0*5)+0] = Heal --> 0
Spells[(0*5)+1] = DamageX2 --> 1
Spells[(0*5)+2] = DamageMaster --> 2
Spells[(0*5)+3] = Anotehr --> 3
Spells[(0*5)+4] = Another --> 4

Hero[1] = Mad
Spells[(1*5)+0] = Heal --> 5
Spells[(2*5)+1] = DamageX2 --> 11
Spells[(3*5)+2] = DamageMaster --> 17
Spells[(4*5)+3] = Anotehr --> 23
Spells[(5*5)+4] = Another --> 29

Is there a more efficient way to save hero and his spells?

 

[HappyTauren]

Save the unit in gamecache?

 

[Chaosy]

OOP

Learn vjass to make it easy mode.
Or wurst.

 

[HappyTauren]

I just realized you don't want to save a hero, but a hero type.

As chaosy said, you want to use some sort of object oriented programming for that.

So, how's your knowledge of programming?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Result

You used the wrong variable... It was meant to do this...

Hero[0] = Arthas
Spells[(0*5)+0] = Heal --> 0
Spells[(0*5)+1] = DamageX2 --> 1
Spells[(0*5)+2] = DamageMaster --> 2
Spells[(0*5)+3] = Anotehr --> 3
Spells[(0*5)+4] = Another --> 4

Hero[1] = Mad
Spells[(1*5)+0] = Heal --> 5
Spells[(1*5)+1] = DamageX2 --> 6
Spells[(1*5)+2] = DamageMaster --> 7
Spells[(1*5)+3] = Anotehr --> 8
Spells[(1*5)+4] = Another --> 9

Hero[2] = DrSuperGood
Spells[(2*5)+0] = Awesome --> 10
Spells[(2*5)+1] = Atomic --> 11
Spells[(2*5)+2] = Great Justice--> 12
Spells[(2*5)+3] = Cool --> 13
Spells[(2*5)+4] = Fail --> 14

Is there a more efficient way to save hero and his spells?

If there is a well defined and reasonable maximum number of spells then this approach is highly efficient and recommended. It is basically a 2D array. Be aware of the 8192 array index maximum.

If the number of spells per hero is not well defined then one has to use a dynamic data structure such as a linked list. This has to be manually implemented as there is no standard functionality for that in the game. Use arrays as dynamic memory, allocating an index per linked list node. Fairly simple if one uses vJASS or other extension languages.

Be aware that extension languages are compile time only. They still produce standard JASS on map save, much like what GUI does.

 

[KILLCIDE]

You can save the unittype as the parent key of a hashtable, then save the ability ids under that.

 

[VicALV]

I just realized you don't want to save a hero, but a hero type.

As chaosy said, you want to use some sort of object oriented programming for that.

So, how's your knowledge of programming?

yes im software engineer, the objective of the object, the objective is to handle more easy the hero and the data, to create some like a super smash bros, with selecting the hero, and later charging the spells, because with another system i manage the casting of the spell of every hero to create combos

 

[KILLCIDE]

If youre only saving the abilities under a specific unittype, hashtables are the way to go.

 

[VicALV]

If youre only saving the abilities under a specific unittype, hashtables are the way to go.

I will try it and later post it

 

[I love pirates]

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