Customization?

[arsenal32]

Hi guys n00b to the forum.. ive found alot of help here so far so said i ask something myself

I'm working on a car game and i want the user be able to choose car,colour and in future other custom parts, i no how to display and cycle through the different parts.

What im stuck with is how to make the game know what parts i choose, say i have a green type 2 car, how do i send them choices to a race etc without duplicating things over and over is there is a way...

if somebody can point me towards a tutorial or anything rather then trying to explain it to me if its complicated.. help is greatly appreciated

thanks
scan..

[bluemagica]

well if you would search around a bit you would have already found the answer, but it is quite simple really, just create a global variable, save the choice value in it, and then in the game state, refer to this variable to rebuild your car. Easy work.

[mr_malee]

use an object and like bluemagica pointed out, store it somewhere that any other object can reference it.

so after a player customizes their car, build the result then store it.

function getCarCustomizationSettings(car) {

	var result = {};

	result.body = car.body.currentFrame;
	result.wheels = car.wheels.currentFrame;

	return result;
}

function startGame() {
	
	var settings = GameSettings.carSettings;
	
	//show the correct car in game
	
	game.car.body.gotoAndStop(settings.body);
	game.car.wheels.gotoAndStop(settings.wheels);
}

//store the settings in a class named "GameSettings"

GameSettings.carSettings = getCarCustomizationSettings(theCarMovieClip);

//start the game

startGame();