I am wondering how you would go about making a array with two indexes. I am used to using int[,] for C# but in Lua i do not know how i can accomplish this?
I am using this to store information in a [x,y] grid array were i set a value like 1 or 5. This is to store information about a 2D terrain when generating for placing objects. I do not know if that helps with the question.
In Lua you can just make a table where each index is another table.
local array = {}
for i = 1, 10 do
local new = {}
array[i] = new
for j = 1, 10 do
new[j] = (i-1)*10+j
end
end
If you want to set a value of some index higher than 10 in this case, you need to add another table first, e.g.
array[27] = {}
array[27][16] = 5
accessing values is no surprise
print(array[5][2])
52
All a multidimensional array in Lua is is a table that has other tables inside of it.
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Mathematically and logically this makes seance because i do the same with my terrain generating script. Thank you for explaining how this worked.