[Josh_Borke]

the first code set should work, the second code set won't because iId != wapen_tabel index. a simple function to create a static array should be easy, ie

 int UTIL_GetWapenIndex (int iId)
 {
 	return wapen_ids(iId);
 }
 
 void UTIL_MakeWapenIndex (void)
 {
 	 int i = 0;
 	 for (i = 0; i < 32; i++)
 		 wapen_ids(wapen_tabel(i).iId) = i;
 	 return;
 }

or something like that.

HTH. testing the shield code now...