Struct

[Rakiayn]

Anyone can explain to me what exectly a struct is? maybe with a simple example?
I already read unrealwiki, but that didnt made me understand it

[Shadow]

A struct is a method to define a new data structure or to combine different structures together.
Let's take the vector struct. It consists of 3 floats (floating point numbers) and form together AS struct a vector.

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struct Vector
{
  var() config float X, Y, Z;
};


[Feralidragon]

In a short summary: a struct is a type which can hold several types of variables.
Think struct as a "group of variables": "vector" is a struct that holds 3 float variables: X, Y and Z, "rotator" is a struct that holds 3 int variables: Yaw, Pitch and Roll, etc.
Example:

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struct MyStructA
{
   var int n;
   var string s;
   var Actor A;
};


Basically I created a type (not variable yet) struct called MyStructA, and MyStructA is composed by:
- int called n;
- string called s;
- actor reference called A.

From there you can now declare one or more actual variables of the type MyStructA, then use that variable to assign or read values:

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var MyStructA someVar;

...

someVar.n = 100;
someVar.s = "I love structs";
someVar.A = Spawn(Class'Actor');

...

local string sss;

   sss = someVar.s;

You can even create another different struct with an existent struct type in it:

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struct MyStructB
{
   var int x;
   var MyStructA mA;
};

Any doubts?

EDIT: Shadow you're a post ninja xD, you were quicker than me lol

[Rakiayn]

okay I understand that, so basicly it is not very different from using normal variables, exept this keeps it organized?

[Feralidragon]

Yeah, somewhat, they're actually more than that: for example, let's say you want to store players data, from a max of 32 players, within a mutator: name, team, kills (I know you can get any of these directly from the player or playerreplicationinfo, but this is just an exemplification). How would you declare/build the variables?
Here's an example:

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struct PData
{
   var string PlayerName;
   var byte Team;
   var int Kills;
};

var PData PlayersData[32];

See how useful they are?
I think this is the best kind of usage you can give to structs, plus you can make direct comparisons with them, take the following example values:

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PlayersData[0].PlayerName = "John";
PlayersData[0].Team = 0;
PlayersData[0].Kills = 100;

PlayersData[1].PlayerName = "John";
PlayersData[1].Team = 0;
PlayersData[1].Kills = 100;

PlayersData[2].PlayerName = "John";
PlayersData[2].Team = 0;
PlayersData[2].Kills = 124567;

PlayersData[3].PlayerName = "Trololo";
PlayersData[3].Team = 0;
PlayersData[3].Kills = 100;

You can make comparisions like this:

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PlayersData[0] == PlayersData[1]   => TRUE
PlayersData[0] == PlayersData[2]   => FALSE
PlayersData[0] == PlayersData[3]   => FALSE

Also you can give a more advanced functionality like in vector and rotators by creating your own operators, for example:

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final operator(20) PData <+> (PData A, PData B)
{
local PData PD;

   PD.PlayerName = A.PlayerName $ B.PlayerName;
   PD.Team = Min(A.Team, B.Team);
   PD.Kills = A.Kills + B.Kills;
   return PD;
}

...

PlayersData[5] = PlayersData[0] <+> PlayersData[3];

//End values
PlayersData[5].PlayerName    => "JohnTrololo";
PlayersData[5].Team       => 0;
PlayersData[5].Kills       => 200;

Are you seeing the possibilities using structs?

[JackGriffin]

Nice examples Ferali. I've often wondered this question myself and I knew I should have used them a few times but didn't really get the concept. Now I do and I'll use them in the future!

[Rakiayn]

I understand, except for that last peace of code which makes little sense to me

[Feralidragon]

As for the last example, here's perhaps a more understandable one:

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//Struct declaration
struct WWW
{
   var int AA;
   var int BB;
   var int CC;
   var int DD;
};

var WWW W1, W2, W3;

_______________________________________________

//Initial values
W1.AA = 100;
W1.BB = 50;
W1.CC = 1500;
W1.DD = 326;

W2.AA = 33;
W2.BB = 80;
W2.CC = 3000;
W2.DD = 1440;

_______________________________________________

//New operator
final operator(20) WWW + (WWW A, WWW B)
{
local WWW WD;

   WD.AA = A.AA + B.AA;
   WD.BB = A.BB + B.BB;
   WD.CC = A.CC + B.CC;
   WD.DD = A.DD + B.DD;
   
   return WD;
}

_______________________________________________

//Operation
W3 = W1 + W2;

//W3 final values
W3.AA: 133;
W3.BB: 130;
W3.CC: 4500;
W3.DD: 1766;