PreLoading Reasources

[TideOfChaos]

I little while ago, I was trying to reduce lag on an AOS I was making, and I remembered reading something about 'preloading' to reduce lag. This is something like, loading the dummy units and variables that are used in the abilities of the picked heroes and save them or something? I really have no clue. If someone could care to explain though...

 

[istar]

some abilities lags for the first time it is used, get a dummy unit, give it the ability and cast it somewhere=preload
theres a preload function in GUI for certain files
for sound, it wont have anything for the first time, it just preload the sound, thats what i heard, so play the sound too
you dont have to do it for everything, just the stuff you found to lag
creating heroes lag too, if the heroes you using is limited, you could preload them, change ownership/hide/unhide when needed