| 07-11-2005, 09:22 AM | #1 |
Yeah.. My hero arena map is usually most effective when there are a lot of people in the game, but I find that when there are lots of people, the map takes forever to load.. Anyways, I attached an unprotect version to this thread... So please if anyone can take a look at it and help me make the load time faster for multiplayer, I would be forever in your debt! Some things that I believe may be causing the ridiculously long load time are probably my initialization triggers, or possibly doodads.. but I remember it loading a lot faster in the past.. and back then it had MORE doodads than it does now.. - Thanx in advance! |
| 07-11-2005, 09:45 AM | #2 |
A typo error on map filesize,is it 9megabytes!!! It did load very fast to me!!! maybe it's your pc too slow. Seeing the map in the editor: You use a lot of useless specific events where tey could be generic,like Events Unit - A unit owned by Player 1 (Red) Acquires an item Unit - A unit owned by Player 2 (Blue) Acquires an item Unit - A unit owned by Player 3 (Teal) Acquires an item Unit - A unit owned by Player 4 (Purple) Acquires an item Unit - A unit owned by Player 5 (Yellow) Acquires an item Unit - A unit owned by Player 6 (Orange) Acquires an item Unit - A unit owned by Player 7 (Green) Acquires an item Unit - A unit owned by Player 8 (Pink) Acquires an item Unit - A unit owned by Player 9 (Gray) Acquires an item Unit - A unit owned by Player 10 (Light Blue) Acquires an item Unit - A unit owned by Player 11 (Dark Green) Acquires an item Unit - A unit owned by Player 12 (Brown) Acquires an item 12 events that could be Unit - A unit Acquires an item so as i said it may be yuor pc's fault |
| 07-11-2005, 10:11 AM | #3 |
When the map takes long to load when there are many people in game, it's their fault, not yours. The more people that join a game, the bigger chance you have that one of them will have a slow computer which everybody will have to wait for. For lowering loading times (and map size), you can use Lord Vexorian's map optimizer. |
| 07-11-2005, 10:49 AM | #4 |
and also try pitzermikes widgetizer - its said to reduce the lod times dramatically (but vex may have included something like this in his latest version, i dunno) |
| 07-11-2005, 11:02 AM | #5 |
No, widgetizer does something completely different from Vex's optimizer, so they can be used together. (there were some issues with that, but I think it's more or less bug free now... just make sure you use them in the correct order, one of them must be used before the other, can't remember which one though) |
| 07-11-2005, 11:17 AM | #6 |
i think its the widgetizer before vex's |
| 07-14-2005, 12:14 PM | #7 |
yes widg before vex, but I found lately that the widg is screwing up some of my custom icons for some reason or another, but it deff works with load times big time, made about a 40% diff with my map, but vexs program dont work as well after widgetizing, as far as reducing size, but if you jsut want to reduce six a lot just use his program |