Storing object data between scenes

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#1

Hi,

I’m totally new to defold & lua, but seems amazing so far, im currently going through the RPG tutorial which stores each screen in a collection factory along with all the enemies / items etc within that screen.

But if I was to kill an enemy / destroy, once I leave the screen and come back its reset again I assume because the whole scene is being removed and then created again when I switch.

Is there a tutorial anybody knows off on how to solve this? I have browsed about and seen people mention tables and other things but I have no idea what that is, are there any good tutorials on it?

Also if it helps most the enemies / items I want to remember the state of already exist in the scene and are not created on the fly using ‘factory.create’

Thanks

#2

You can use Modules to keep track of your enemies, state or whatever you want.
Modules documentation is here: Lua modules in Defold
Tables are kind of a bag :slight_smile: You can put everything in it. (ex: Modules are tables)

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#3

oh that looks perfect i will have a read through it all thanks a lot :slight_smile:

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