External Array

Um... what I think you should do is have world maps. These would store details about your world in a binary, which would be read in by your game. You would have an array and use fopen(), fread(), fclose(), etc., to read in the stuff.

I''ll repeat myself. You store the data in a file, but load it into your array inside your program. For example:

FILE* pInput = fopen("yourfile.dat", "rb");
if (pInput == NULL)
{
// whoops, it didn''t work!
}

// load in your file using fread(), fgets(), fscanf(), etc

fclose(pInput);

To create the file, you can use fwrite() and so on. See MSDN for details.

If you want to write your file, the parameter for fopen() is "wb+" (I think, if I remember rightly), meaning open in binary writing mode, and create the file if it doesn''t exist. See 2D Game thingy. This discusses all sorts of tile game issues, and probably does loading too - I haven''t checked.

Alistair Keys

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