Adding abilities causes lag?

[sethmachine]

Hi,

I have a command which creates a unit at some arbitrary level and accordingly levels up its attributes. I use a home brewed bonus mod system, so I do have to add or remove abilities using powers of 2.

I notice that whenever I run this command, there is noticeable lag/pause before the unit is made.

Is this because of the adding/removing of abilities, or an optimization problem with my code?

 

[Karzama]

That'd be the adding of abilities. There's no real solution (that I'm aware of) other than creating a unit at the start of the game and adding the abilities to it and then removing it. This will cause the lag to be at the start of the game and not further through the game, for whatever reason this only occurs once per spell.

 

[sethmachine]

Once per spell, or once per unit?

So suppose I create a unit every 10 seconds using a bonus mod ability. Will it lag at each unit?

 

[Ceday]

You just only need to do that per ability once in game.

 

[Karzama]

Creating a dummy or something at the start of the game and putting all custom spells on that unit will stop all other lag from adding those abilities.

 

[PurgeandFire]

To simplify your script, you can use this system:
http://www.wc3c.net/showthread.php?t=105279

It does what Karzama mentioned. You just need to use the function on the rawcode on initialization. Usually people will add a line for it in each init function for each spell.