| 11-12-2002, 08:41 PM | #1 |
Guest | I was reading through the battle.net map development forums and came across a post that stated that even though you might be using a special effect that ends automatically, you still have to destroy it, because even tho you can't see it, it still exists and can needlessly take up large amounts of memory. Is this true? |
| 11-12-2002, 09:28 PM | #2 |
yep. |
| 11-12-2002, 11:45 PM | #3 |
Guest | In that case does anyone know of a good way to handle the problem I posted at the battle.net forums: On all 4 sides of my map I have a crypt doodad with a region placed directly in front of it that transports the triggering unit to the other side, acting as a custom warp gate. Pretty simple so far.. but then i wanted to have a special effect occur everytime the unit walked into the region, a sort of teleportion effect. The mass teleport special effect would probably be pretty simple because its a special effect with a duration, but such an effect wouldnt really work with the theme of my map. Messing around with all the different effects, I was particulary drawn to the unsommon building effect (having it occur everytime the unit was transported.) The problem with that effect is that it doesnt end unless you set up an action to destroy the effect. Seeming simple enough I set up an action to destroy the last created effect right after the action of creating the effect. I tested it and did not like the fact that you didnt really get to see the effect, it was just a green flash. So I added a .5 second delay in between the time that the effect was created and destroyed and it worked. I ran my units into the warp gate and everything worked great. Then i ran my map with a fully functional customized AI, where a number of units are ordered to walk into the warp gate. This is where I got stuck. With that many units walking into several warp gates at one time the .5 second delay is plenty of time to allow other special effects triggers to run. Causing the destroy last created special effect action (which is really the only avaiable action for destroying special effects) to become obselete. I started fiddling around with variables and arrays trying to fix the problem, but with no real luck. So if anyone has any ideas please respond ASAP. Thanks |
| 11-12-2002, 11:56 PM | #4 |
Oh jeez. Thanks for letting me in on this guys. I had no idea about that. :D |