is every x second trigger good?

[paleto123]

I was making a multiplayer map, was thinking if every x seconds of game time was good for it. im newb

 

[FeelsGoodMan]

What kind of action will you be running? There's nothing wrong with using it as long as you remove all leaks. And of course as long as you don't run insane amounts of actions in a very low interval, like move 1000 units and create 500 special effects every 0.01 seconds

 

[Nudl9]

It's called a timer loop and yes people use it all the time.
You can run into performance problems if you have too many or big structures in a loop, but chances are that won't ever happen unless you're making something complicated.

 

[paleto123]

is 0.5 seconds too much stress?

 

[FeelsGoodMan]

is 0.5 seconds too much stress?

Depends what you're doing. Post your trigger here then we can give you a better answer.

 

[paleto123]

its embarrassing to post it. lots of leak that I need to fix. im having trouble with my trees being replaced as corns and wheat model atm. and thanks for the help

 

[FeelsGoodMan]

its embarrassing to post it. lots of leak that I need to fix. im having trouble with my trees being replaced as corns and wheat model atm.

Why is it embarrassing to post it? Everyone has to start somewhere, and without I can't really tell you if it's something you should do or not.

 

[Nudl9]

You can run as low as 0.01 without any problems.
You can also run 20+ loops with 0.05 second loops.
It all depends on what you have in the loop.
Generally speaking large unit groups with say 200 units and creating new units is pretty taxing.
I think maybe large if/then/else trees can lagg too, i'm not sure though.

 

[paleto123]

the tree issue isnt part of the trigger yet. I had a model replace on the tree,changed it variation to 1,shows up on map,but when I run the game it disappear. the shadow is still there. im figuring that out first. I was planning to make some ai peasent auto harvest "trees" in a certain region. and make a trigger to check if there are still "tree" to harvest

 

[paleto123]

ingame

map editor

 

[Uncle]

Take a picture of the Wheat in the Object Editor. It probably has something to do with the settings for it like "Has Lightweight Model" or "Replaceable Texture File".