Is there any way to make this table more better?

[NexoKami]

When I look at it again, it feels kinda inefficient if I plan to make numerous of waves. Any ideas?

[Mystxry12 (Mystxry)]

First of all wut is the purpose of the arrays and why are the elements so weird and non-sensical?

[NexoKami]

Yeah, but I’m not sure what I’m missing here or what I need to do. I was grabbing my basic form of tables, got a nil value, tried using table.insert from documentation (it worked), and i started feeling weird about it.

[Mystxry12 (Mystxry)]

That doesn’t answer my question…

[NexoKami]

In simple words: I don’t know.

[Mystxry12 (Mystxry)]

Huh??? What is your end goal or what u tryna achieve?

[Corruptonator (juno)]

If you had 2 tables with the exact same things inside, you can just clone one table.

local WaveList.Waves = {}

local t = {"1", 2, true}

table.insert(WaveList.Waves, t)
table.insert(WaveList.Waves, table.clone(t))

[NexoKami]

I plan to make a wave, then it spawns another way after the event triggers for it to happen. Like what you see in most wave-based games. I only needed help on what makes no sense here in the code and I cannot figure out which and where.

[NexoKami]

Thank you so much! This is what I’ve been forgetting.

[YosemiteMe]

Without getting into metatables and constructors, the next level up would be helper functions, and then to package those in a module…

-- ModuleScript
local module = {
  waves = {}
  AddWave = function(self, wave: table)
    table.insert(self.waves, wave)
  end,
  GetWave = function(self, index: number)
    return self.waves[index]
  end,
}
return module

Something like that. I didn’t check this in studio, so probably broken code, but you get the idea. Add more helpers as you go, and compound them.

[NexoKami]

@YosemiteMe

local module = {
  waves = {}
  AddWave = function(self, wave: table)
    table.insert(self.waves, wave)
  end,
  GetWave = function(self, index: number)
    return self.waves[index]
  end,
}
return module

I’ll keep in mind of this, this actually helps getting some kind of idea. Thanks!

[NexoKami]

what if between the 3 or more tables are different?

[Corruptonator (juno)]

I’d need a little more context than that, but if you had 3 tables and you wanted to add them to one big table while still keeping them in tables, then you could do this.

-- for reference, this is what I mean
WaveList.Waves = {
	{1},
	{2},
	{3, "something"}
}

-- You should be able to create the index without using table.insert()
WaveList.Waves[1] = {1, true}

-- this is the same as
local t = {1, true}
table.insert(WaveList.Waves, t}

-- if you don't know the last index, then you can use this: [#table + 1]