Lowering Map Size

[Finner]

I recently recieved a unprotected copy of Enfo's TE. And something about the choosing heroes triggers seems odd to me. It's pretty standard hero choosing trigger. When you select a hero you get 250 gold. When you pick a random hero, you get 250 gold, plus a pot of healing. What I don't get is how he coded it.

Event-Unit come within 80.00 of circle of power gen <xxx>
Condition- Unit equal to heroselector
Action- Creat hero for owner of triggering player at start region.
(This is what i don't get)
IF FlagRandom = true
Create item potion for last created hero in inv
ELSE
Do nothing
(Then some more hero stuff)

Thats for every individual hero selection trigger. He has a separate trigger for the 4 random circles of power that will spawn a random hero. And this trigger SET flagrandom=true.

Couldn't I delete the whole IF/THAN function in each individual trigger, and still have the same effect. Then put the creat healing pot part in just the random trigger. If so would it be worth it to save the space, and possible loading time of them map. Enfo's take a long time to load, and anything I can do would be helpful.

 

[Sheezwack]

Hmm how did you manage to get an unprotected version, I played this map recently and would love to get a unprotected copy too see how he has done some things. (could you send to me IF you're allowed too)

I know what you mean with loading time, it takes heaps of loading time - however i don't think changing this would save you really anytime at all, check how many items he has imported, models, sounds that sort of thing. Maybe if there is alot there this could effect loading time, but from memory i don't remember see many custom models if any in the map.

Honestly I dont know why it takes so long too load, the mapsize isnt that big, there arent many doodads/items around. I have made a similar map recently which is much bigger and it loads alot quicker (still takes a while, but alot quicker). It almost seems like its stuck in some nasty loop at loading time, but you should be able too see whats happening - take a look at the triggers where the event is "Map Initialization" and see whats happening, there will be something there that's causing it to take so long.

Keep in mind its not the physical file size that effects this, i have maps that are closer too 4mb and load waaay quicker.

Would be interesting to know if you can find this out