I'm programming a strategy role playing game. My plan is to create one "HexTile" class to represent a tile, and one "Map" class for the whole map itself. The map itself should contain a dynamically allocated 2d array of the tiles, among other info. At the end of the day, I want to save an instance of the map to a file to be loaded into the actual engine. Is there anything wrong with this general plan? I'm already having a problem getting a dynamic 2D array into the map object. 1st issue: I didn't realize that dynamically allocating a 2D array is drastically different from dynamically allocating a 1D array. Here's the general way I was trying to set the dimensions of the 2D array (nevermind syntax errors, you see what I was hoping to do):

void MapMetal::SetDimensions(int x, int y)
{
	horiz = x;
	vert = y; //sets these values for our information

	//now to allocate the array of hex tiles in this size, and set the pointer to it.
//	TileArray = new *HexTile[x][y]; //could this possibly work
	
};

TileArray is a HexTile object. MapMetal is the main map class, and HexTile is the individual tile type that I wish to create a 2d array of. Is there any way to keep this simple? 2nd issue: Am I going to have to overload the = operator since I'm using my own object type? I always plan on having the same type on each side of the = sign... do I still need to overload it?

Actually it would be; TileArray = new *HexTile[x * y];

But that is not the big problem here. Where do you free the memory that you just allocated?

theTroll

Somehow, yes... 1D array

Yeah!

I can use a 1D array to represent my map. Every (width) I'll add a (length).

I feel dirty...

[Edited by - Renze_Tantra on March 7, 2008 1:00:07 PM]