Making a t Controlling the map

Introduction

Yesterday I found that my map had 10 different Triggers with the "time - periodic event" Event. That maked my map really laggy in some computers and I found that it was completely Unnecesary.

Now I will explain you how to do all the periodic actions you want to do with only ONE periodic event.

Improving your map
We will take this Example:

A hero Arena that requires:
a) A trigger That Checks if somebody quit each 5 seconds
b) A trigger that spawns Creeps each 30 seconds
c) Another trigger that spawns Creeps each 50 seconds
d) A trigger that orders The computers to do something each 10 seconds.
e) A trigger that Shows a Random Text message each 35 seconds
f) A trigger that creates an item for the losing team each 300 seconds.

Well with that options we have an only map with 6 Periodic Events Inside!

Now To improve the Map:

- Create a variable called "t" with an initial value of 0 (t is an integer)

- Create a trigger called timecontroll then

Now we need to place there the triggers
-The first one has to be run each 5 seconds, then we add to the actions:


The second one requires to be run each 30 seconds, here is were we need the t variable If you take a look to the trigger above Each 5 seconds t is increased in one point so to now the real time you only have to do Time = t * 5 , But we don't really need that.

But if we want to make a trigger to Run each 30 seconds we can do this little trick:

(The next is an integer comparision)

- Why a 6 ? will you ask, well just because 30 / 5 = 6
- What is this mod function ? would you ask
You can find it in Math - Modulo . This function does this:

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When you divide 20 with 3 You get a result of 6 and a Residual of 2 - With The modulo you get the Residual

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The next trigger repeats each 50 seconds - And in fact it is the same Spawn creep trigger We will change the Last line


50 / 5 = 10

The Remaining triggers are:
d) A trigger that orders The computers to do something each 10 seconds. So 10/ 5 = 2
e) A trigger that Shows a Random Text message each 35 seconds
So 35 / 5 = 7
f) A trigger that creates an item for the losing team each 300
seconds.
So 300 / 5 = 60



Now we remove the Periodic Events for the triggers.


Final notes
If you have triggers that require something like each 12 seconds and each 37 seconds - You can't use an each 5 seconds Event - You need to use each 1 Second, But remember that in the (t mod X) condition you have no longer to divide the time with 5 to get X

Something Like This

- Trigger A runs each 37 seconds
- Trigger B runs each 12 seconds

Then The time trigger should be like:

But... can you explain why this is better besides organization?

My map is now less laggy than before - And you can turn off the Trigger to Stop the Time when the game is paused.

just a comment vexorian, your english is better than a lot of english speaking people... now thats pretty sad if you think your english is bad lol

I think you found something that will greatly help mappers. :D Good work. :D