Do I need to create one collection proxy for every level? (SOLVED)

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Recently started programming again and have some questions.

Do I need to create one collection proxy for every level or can I use one collection proxy and tell it to load a specific level layout from a table?

I might be wrong. But if I need to do multiple collection proxys that means I will need to have the exact same code in multiple files with the only difference being the level layout.

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Yes, you need to create a collection proxy for each level; You can’t change the proxy’s collection at runtime. I don’t see any reason why you would need to duplicate code, but it depends on what you want to do. You can have a table of all your proxy urls and post the “load” message to whichever one you want.

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Thx. Solved it. It was possible to just use one collection proxy in my case.

I post a message after I have loaded my Play collection proxy that have all info i need for the gameplay.

elseif message_id == hash("proxy_loaded") then
	msg.post(sender, "init")
	msg.post(sender, "enable")
	if sender.fragment == hash("Play") then
 		msg.post("play:/Loader#script", "level", {level = nextLevel})
 	end
end

In the other proxy i have this code:

if message.level == 1 then
	map = {"Level1Data"}
elseif message.level == 2 then
	map = {"Level2Data"}
end
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Ahh, I see. So you are generating your level layout from a table of data? I was thinking you had pre-built levels in the editor as separate collections. I’m glad you solved it.

In this case you could use a table of tables like you said in your old post, and not have to use an elseif block for every level. So

levels = { {Level1Data}, {Level2Data}, {Level3Data} }

and

map = levels[message.level]
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