Being bored in the late hours I noticed a whole lot of jibberish on your hyves, jibberish to me then, at the word xml my brain went *poof*.

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I don’t know if you heard, but I am going to move to Groningen too! The 21st of august my personal movers will help me to get from Enschede to Groningen.

Care to meet up some time?

Marten

“Swamp” in the description you give…did you forget to add something? lol

I’ll reply here so that other people too can benefit from the answer .

For creating a level you’ll have to put all the data you need for creating a level in an XML file. For example if you where using a tile engine you’d need to todo something like this:
http://pastebin.com/Rede12yh

Of course this is quite a lot of work to do by hand, so creating a simple level editor that generates this data for you is extremely handy. You can get the data into your game by creating a class that reads the data and creates level objects from it and adds these to your scenemanager.

The same goes for initializing and saving and loading, just translate your class/struct to an xml node (either by computer serialization or by thinking it up yourself and writing classes that output and read it).

I just have a quick question regarding XML and saving/loading. Do you have any tutorials that deal with creating,initializing and saving/loading data for a level?

Say I have an RPG and I want to start the player on level 4 with 20hp and 3 weapons.

(creating)How do I go about creating the assets “level=4″, “life = 20″ and “weaponCount=3″ and storing them in an XML file?

(initializing) Assuming in my program I have variables Level, life and weapons. How do I assign these variables to the assets in the XML file?

(save/load)Now I want to store or load the users updated level, life and weaponcount in the XML life…how is that accomplished?

The tutorials I have looked at dont specifically deal with these things, but I was wondering if there was a basic way of doing this. To create variables in a document, load these variables into variables in your code, then save the updated variables.

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Thanks for your comment, I actually tried large texts and it seemed fine (there’s a special check in the code to see if we could expect another fragment). Are you sure my code is faulty? Could be that I missed something. Unfortunately I don’t have the sample project anymore, but please play around a bit and if you’ve isolated the problem let me know .