putting tiles on board

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Rook Zimbabwe

O so I am alternating between an Othello game and a chess game and I have run in to a bit of a tedious problem.

Putting tiles.

This is a sample of what I had done:

empty=LoadMesh("square.b3d")
PositionEntity empty,-45,.15,-45
EntityPickMode empty,2

emp2=CopyEntity (empty)
PositionEntity emp2,-45,.15,-35
EntityPickMode emp2,2

emp3=CopyEntity (empty)
PositionEntity emp3,-45,.15,-25
EntityPickMode emp3,2

emp4=CopyEntity (empty)
PositionEntity emp4,-45,.15,-15
EntityPickMode emp4,2

emp5=CopyEntity (empty)
PositionEntity emp5,-45,.15,-5
EntityPickMode emp5,2

emp6=CopyEntity (empty)
PositionEntity emp6,-45,.15,5
EntityPickMode emp6,2

emp7=CopyEntity (empty)
PositionEntity emp7,-45,.15,15
EntityPickMode emp7,2

yadda yadda... I have 100 of these to do the hard way and then I thought about it... for next... DUH!!!

So I did this:

For empnumb = 2 To 100
	emp+empnumb = CopyEntity (empty)
Next

but it tells me emp is not a function. I tried it with emp(empnumb) and it told me the same thing... D'oh!!!

How can I do this without typing my wrists off???

-Rook