#####[ How to add a file-list to an array ]#####

Engine: LaterGM+ENIGMA or Game Maker
Language: Game Maker Language (GML)
Last updated: 2023/07/18

If you need to add a file list to an array use something similar to the
following example:

    var i = 0;
    var fileName = file_find_first(working_directory + "*.dat",fa_directory);

    while(fileName != '')
    {
        fArray[i] = fileName;
        fileName = file_find_next();
        i += 1;
    }

    file_find_close();

Now, just for a second, imagine that you have an animated 3D model
created using the 'Blender program. LateralGM+ENIGMA currently only 
accepts D3D and OBJ models when using the d3d_model_load() function, to
which Game Maker itself, or at least the older versions, only accept
D3D. In either case, when exporting an animated model as OBJ from
Blender, it exports a single *.obj file for EACH frame of animation.
This means, that we would have to get a list of these *obj files as an
array to then draw them, one at a time, to appear as animated.

Perhaps, getting a list of frames for an OBJ 3D model would look like 
so:

    var i = 0;
    var ObjFrameFile = file_find_first(working_directory + "*.obj",fa_directory);
    while(ModelName != '')
    {
        ModelName[i] = ObjFrameFile;
        ObjFrameFile = file_find_next();
        i += 1;
    }
    file_find_close();