Question on Inter-map Communication

[Mindless]

Hi everyone,

I am recently creating a custom campaign. I've just finished the first map. Now I want the player to move on the the second map. The problem I have is I've defined a lot of variables storing the properties of my player in the first map, now I want to transfer it all to the second map. Is there a way to save variables in a file or something? And then when the second map initializes, it would read all the variables and set the values accordingly.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Builder Bob]

I haven't used them myself yet, but I believe banks is what will help you with this task. Both maps can use the same bank if I'm not mistaken.

May I ask you how you are able to jump from one map to another? Everything I tested in that area just ended the game.

 

[s3rius]

Yes, banks are what you can use. You can open a bank with a certain name, store your units/variables in there (and save the bank) and then retrieve them by opening the same bank in your other map.

You can't store the variable itself, but only the value. So in the end it'd look like this:

  Load Bank named "MyBankName"
  Set MyBank = last created bank

  Store unit MyHero with key "hero" in MyBank
  Store integer MyGoldAmount with key "gold" in MyBank

  Save bank MyBank

  Load Bank named "MyBankName"
  Set MyBank = last created bank

  Set MyHeroInMission2 = key "hero" from MyBank
  Set MyGoldInMission2 = key "gold" from MyBank

There's some nice video tutorials on banks in mapster:
http://forums.sc2mapster.com/resources/tutorials/2837-video-tutorial-banks/

 

[Mindless]

I haven't used them myself yet, but I believe banks is what will help you with this task. Both maps can use the same bank if I'm not mistaken.

May I ask you how you are able to jump from one map to another? Everything I tested in that area just ended the game.

Builder Bob, your question is that exact question that I was going to ask.

So everyone, any ideas how to jump from one map to another?