putting tiles on board

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Rook Zimbabwe

Actually I tried to do it with types. Didn't work right.
The locations on the board as well as the screen are -45 to 45 X and -45 to 45 Z. Stepping by 10.

SO I did this:

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

Type empty
	Field entity
	Field ex
	Field ey
	Field ez
	Field Color
End Type

For space = 1 To 100
	For locx = -45 To 45 Step 10
		For locz = -45 To 45 Step 10
			n.empty = New empty
			n\entity = CopyEntity(empty)
			n\ex = locx
			n\ey = .15
			n\ez = locz
		Next
	Next
Next

But for some reason that won't display all the squares... I think they overlap. Very slow.

I put the empty squares with a function I call outside of the main program loop like this:

Function put_empty()

For n.empty = Each empty
		EntityType n\entity,2
		EntityPickMode n\entity,2
		PositionEntity n\entity,n\ex,n\ey,n\ez
Next

End Function

So what am I doing wrong???
-RZ