Spawning Lag

[Venge22]

Ok, so i made 1 footman spawn every 2 seconds. Every thing was running good until it started to lag when a unit spawned. It was eventually lagging for like a split second every 3 seconds or so. If there a way to stop this lag?

 

[Renendaru]

Remove the leaks from creating the units.

 

[Venge22]

How do u remove the leaks? Is it easy to do?

 

[Renendaru]

Ok, assign each last created units, your footman, into variables with a name of your choice. Then call a custom script with...

call DestroyUnit(udg_yourunitvariable)

 

[Venge22]

ok, um lol. Sry for asking, but how do u do a custom script?

 

[Exide]

There's an action called Custom script, it's pretty near the top of the list. -Only in The Frozen Throne, though.

Also, units don't leak. Well they do, but they eventually die and clean up after themselves, so there's no worry there.

However, you should remove the point leak. -Where you create the unit. (Usually Center of *region, or Random point in *region.)
-This is done by creating a Point Variable, using set variable to set it.
set TempPoint = Center of (Playable Map)
Create 1 Footman for Player 1 (Red) at TempPoint facing 270.00
Custom Script call RemoveLocation(udg_TempPoint)

There are tons of leak tutorials around here, if you want more information.

 

[Venge22]

Man, i only have RoC.

 

[Renendaru]

The new EGUI thing is helpful. It has all the leak clean up scripts in GUI triggers.

 

[Venge22]

Ack, this is confusing for me. Idk wat Gui and other stuff like that is. O, wait Gui is regular triggers. I just found that out.

 

[Exide]

Man, i only have RoC.

Then you can do it in JASS, just the same.

GUI is the opposite of JASS. GUI is what you know as triggers.
JASS is the programming language that WC3 uses.
GUI - Graphical User Interface, a simplified and more beginner-friendly way of creating triggers in JASS.

You should buy TFT, if you want to create maps in WC3.
RoC is horrible to work with.

 

[Venge22]

Yes, im planning on buying TFT soon. Isn't it only like 15 dollars? So, i cant really fix the lag i guess

 

[Exide]

I don't know, I don't use dollars.
-It's not very expensive, though.

Yes, you can fix your lag using JASS.
Click 'Edit -> Convert to Custom Text', and your trigger will converted into JASS. -Then you can use local variables to make it even more simple for yourself.

 

[Venge22]

Um, im being dumb today. Where in the actions or whereever it is is teh Edit convert to custom text?

 

[dannyboydude]

edit - convert to custom text

basically aloowing you to type in jass

 

[Renendaru]

It is no action... Select your trigger go to the Edit drop down menu at top of the window of the trigger editor then select it.

 

[Venge22]

Is it in actions or wat? Im asking where to find it, i already know wat to look for

 

[Exide]

I'm pretty sure RoC should have it..

Open the Trigger Editor (F4), Create a new trigger.
Add one event and one Action:

Untitled Trigger 001
    Events
        Map initialization
    Conditions
    Actions
        Unit - Create 1 Footman for Player 1 (Red) at (Center of (Playable map area)) facing Default building facing degrees

Then, at the very top of the screen, click 'Edit' and scroll down to 'Convert to Custom Text'.

You will get a warning message, telling you that you can't convert the trigger back to GUI, if you convert it to JASS - click yes to continue.
Your trigger should now look like this:

function Trig_Untitled_Trigger_001_Actions takes nothing returns nothing
    call CreateNUnitsAtLoc( 1, 'hfoo', Player(0), GetRectCenter(GetPlayableMapRect()), bj_UNIT_FACING )
endfunction

//===========================================================================
function InitTrig_Untitled_Trigger_001 takes nothing returns nothing
    set gg_trg_Untitled_Trigger_001 = CreateTrigger(  )
    call TriggerAddAction( gg_trg_Untitled_Trigger_001, function Trig_Untitled_Trigger_001_Actions )
endfunction

Here you can add tons of actions that RoC-GUI won't allow you to use.

 

[Venge22]

Ahhh XD Thx, im being retarted today It looks confusing. Also if this changes anything i made the units go to the middle of the map for my game.

 

[Exide]

>Also if this changes anything i made the units go to the middle of the map for my game.
-Yes, it changes things.

Now, to clean up the leaks:

function Trig_Untitled_Trigger_001_Actions takes nothing returns nothing
     local location temppoint = GetRectCenter(GetPlayableMapRect()  // This sets the point.
    call CreateNUnitsAtLoc( 1, 'hfoo', Player(0), temppoint), bj_UNIT_FACING )
    call RemoveLocation(temppoint)    //This cleans up the leaks.
    set temppoint = null       //This cleans up the leaks.
endfunction

//===========================================================================
function InitTrig_Untitled_Trigger_001 takes nothing returns nothing
    set gg_trg_Untitled_Trigger_001 = CreateTrigger(  )
    call TriggerAddAction( gg_trg_Untitled_Trigger_001, function Trig_Untitled_Trigger_001_Actions )
endfunction

Simple enough.

// - Comments. Not needed for the trigger to work.

 

[Venge22]

lol, ok. I don't feel like working on it now though mapmaking gets nerve wrecking sumtimes.