Combine wrote: Alot of things about the TYPEs tutorial confuses me.
For example, it never explains how exactly types are named. In the tutorial, it says

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Type Sprite	
    Field ID, char_tex
End Type

Then it stops referring to that type and just starts using a type that seems to be called "Character" from then on, Which I presume is seperate from "Sprite"

Character.Sprite = New Sprite

Additionally, the tutorial presents this code:

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For C = 1 To 3         ; 3 Characters 
    Character.Sprite = New Sprite
    Character\ID = CreateSprite()
    Read img$, X, Y, Z
    Character\char_tex = LoadAnimTexture( img$, 7, 32, 48, 0, 4 )
    EntityTexture Character\ID, Character\char_tex, 1
    HandleSprite Character\ID, 0, -1
    ScaleSprite Character\ID, 2, 2
    EntityAutoFade Character\ID, 100, 120
    PositionEntity Character\ID, X, Y, Z
Next

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Read img$, X, Y, Z

First off, How does this know which data to look at?

Secondly, img$ doesn't pop up anywhere else except here:
"Character\char_tex = LoadAnimTexture( img$, 7, 32, 48, 0, 4 )"
Which sets the image to the sprite defined (see below for the data)

The data used by the read command is this:

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.Characters 
Data "char2.bmp", 10, 0, 10
Data "char3.bmp", -10, 0, 10
Data "char4.bmp", 0, 0, 10

But I don't know how the read command knows to look at this data.

Read img$, X, Y, Z

img = "char2.bmp"
X = 10
Y = 0
Z = 10

img = "char3.bmp"
X = -10
Y = 0
Z = 10

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