Headers Format

When Game Tables sees a value in a table cell, it should determine to which property of which object it should be applied. To do so, it checks the content of the row and column headers corresponding to this cell.

As a general rule, you may think that a row header locates an object and a column header locates a property inside the object.

Row Headers

The full syntax of a row header is following:

Prefab Name [ / [Game Object Name] [<Component Type>] [Property Prefix]]

Square brackets denote optional elements.

A row header should conform the following rules:

• Must contain a Prefab Name
• May contain a Game Object Name if the column header does not contain it
• May contain a Component Type if the column header does not contain it nor Game Object Name
• May contain a prefix for Property Path if the column header does not contain Game Object Name nor Component Type

Examples:

• Player
• Big Soldier / Gun
• Yellow Car / Front Left Wheel <Rigid Body>
• Plasma Gun / <Shooter> Patterns[0].Offset

Notice the / separator between Prefab Name and the following header elements. It’s required if a row header contains any elements besides Prefab Name. Otherwise it would be impossible to distinguish the extra elements from Prefab Name due to whitespace insensitivity of Game Tables.

More details on specific header elements see in Header Elements.

Column Headers

The full syntax of a column header is following:

[Game Object Name] [<Component Type>] Property Path

Square brackets denote optional elements.

A column header should conform the following rules:

• Must contain a Property Path or its suffix
• May contain Game Object Name if the row header does not contain it nor Component Type
• May contain Component Type if the row header does not contain it

Examples:

• Health
• <Clip> Ammo
• Spawn Point 1 / <Spawner> Offset.X

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Table of contents

• Header Elements
• Matching Rules
• Arrays