Question about Generic expiration timer

01-23-2004, 11:07 AM

I searched the FAQs, but i couldnt seem to find anything on this particular action, so ill go ahead and ask here:

I have a channeling spell that for 10 secs in a small area creates specific units, and then destroys the units 1-1.5 secs later.

Are there any drawbacks in using "Unit - Add a X second Generic expiration timer to (Last created unit)", as opposed to storing the unit in a Unit or Unitgroup variable, and then destroying it after said time?

Of course, my question is directed at the lag-issue.

Thanks,
Ala

01-23-2004, 11:14 AM	#2
AllPainful	Actually its BETTER to have the generic timers. As "Remove Unit from game" action is the one that causes a mem leak (when you remove units they are stored in memory)

01-23-2004, 11:18 AM	#3
Alakafizz	Great, thanks! I thought of another issue, but with special effects: Is there any noticable difference between these two solutions?: 1) creating a special effect, storing it in a var, removing it 2) creating a unit with model = special effect, setting a generic expiration timer. Thanks again :)

01-23-2004, 11:28 AM	#4
AllPainful	I do not think their would be a noticable difference between those 2. But I ain't sure on that one.

01-23-2004, 01:01 PM

Alakafizz

Hm ok.. but it got me thinking - if you have a a spell like this:

Code:

Spell Start
    Events
        Unit - A unit Begins channeling an ability
    Conditions
        (Ability being cast) Equal to Spell
    Actions
        Trigger - Turn on Spell_Effects <gen>


Spell_Effects
    Events
        Time - Every (Random real number between 0.50 and 0.80) seconds of game time
        Time - Every (Random real number between 1.00 and 1.30) seconds of game time
        Time - Every (Random real number between 1.50 and 1.80) seconds of game time
    Conditions
    Actions
         Some effect

Would you be better off adding these 3 Events with another trigger when the spell is actually learned by a hero, in case it's on a AoS-kinda map, where it's not even certain the hero with this spell will be selected?

Im asking this because of a thread in this forum about triggers that are initially turned off, but will appearently still be checked and thus using mem.. Am i right in that the above mentioned solution would ease the memory usage?

Thanks
Ala