How would I go about scripting this Moveset List that relates to the selected Character/Class?

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heya.

So I’m making a character/class select screen for my fighting game and when you select a class it shows their movelist on a scrolling UI through textlabels, but I’m trying to figure out how I’d go about this. I have a semi-idea, but can’t really figure out how I’d go about it.

Basically, I chose to store each move for a class as a separate string inside a table for each class. Like this:

local class1Info = {
     "This move does this",
     "This move does that",
     "This punch does this",
     etc...
}

local class2Info = {
     "This move does that move woah.",
     "This move activates that."
     etc...
}

And i would also have a table for each textlabel in the scrolling UI:

local labelTable = {
    Selectscreen.ScrollingUI.Label1,
    Selectscreen.ScrollingUI.Label2,
    Selectscreen.ScrollingUI.Label3,
    Selectscreen.ScrollingUI.Label4,
    etc
}

I think there might be a way to go about this but I’m not too sure. Maybe a for loop? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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If your scrolling labels are dynamic in that there may be more or less than the 4 you’ve specified, it would probably be best to simply generate labels as needed.

You are correct that you’ll want to iterate through your array using pairs.

Example:

local class1Info = {
	"This move does this",
	"This move does that",
	"This punch does this",
	--etc...
}
for _,info in pairs(class1Info) do
	--generate code for info
	--info = the current value in the array
end

Another example:

local classList = {
	['Class 1']='Knight',
	['Class 2']='Mage'
}
for key,value in pairs(classList) do
	print(key..': '..value)
end

Output:

Class 1: Knight
Class 2: Mage

If using a regular array with no keys, the first value will instead be the current iteration position.

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bumpin’ cause I still having some confusion getting this correctly, so let me just reclarify what i want to achieve with some fancy images this time.

This is the scrolling gui i was referring to, it has multiple textboxes with placeholder text and are organised numerically:

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And this is the character select screen:

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Once a player clicks on any of these buttons, the scrolling gui would pop up detailing the associated character’s moveset. Basically what i want to achieve is for the scrolling gui to pop up whenever any character is picked, but the textlabels’ text will be changed/updated to show the selected character’s moveset.

Though I’m still not really sure how to achieve this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.