[Trigger] Is this allowed?

[Heaven Editor]

I was wondering...

If i create a unit hero using trigger and after some period, i remove them. What will actually happen?

from my experience. nothing weird happen... How bout you??

 

[Meticulous]

I have no idea what you're trying to ask.

 

[thekebecer]

The unit will be removed...deuh...seriously is it a question or just some line of text?

 

[Dr Super Good]

The unit gets removed permantly. The hero will no longer be revivable and its hero icon will be gone. In JASS script, all handles pointing at the unit will return a sort of null when evaluated. Some memory for the unit will still remain allocated and it is not clear if this ever gets freed for reusue later.

 

[Heaven Editor]

Thanks DSG. Since it returns null, i dont think there will be any leak...

 

[Dr Super Good]

i dont think there will be any leak...

If you track WC3's memory usage you will see that it does seem to leak. After creating 30000 units and removing them (even if done one at a time) you will see an increase in WC3's memory allocation. Some people are reporting that the leak is temporary due to a schedualed garbage collector so it is not truely a leak but I can not confirm/disprove this as my tests were over a short period (minutes at most).

 

[Heaven Editor]

30,000 is a lot. i dont think any map will reach up this number. however, thank you again

 

[Laiev]

30,000 is a lot. i dont think any map will reach up this number. however, thank you again

12 players tower defense.

50 waves.

30 creeps per wave.

30 * 50 * 12 = 18.000

Ya, in normal maps you'll never reach this number. Except if number of creeps per lane is 50 then you reach it (seriously, no tower defense use 50 creeps per wave, since 2 players playing it will start lags on some computers).

 

[Heaven Editor]

lol. td map maker must consider this... if 50 creep per wave. the game last for 5 hours.. i guess XD

 

[Noobsmoke]

As i know, exploding units doesn't leak, right ?

 

[Meticulous]

As i know, exploding units doesn't leak, right ?

Exploding a hero won't remove them from the game.

 

[Dr Super Good]

As i know, exploding units doesn't leak, right ?

It leaks as much as removing them or even letting them die in combat. It is an engine fault not a script fault.

 

[Aeroblyctos]

It leaks as much as removing them or even letting them die in combat. It is an engine fault not a script fault.

Meaning don't make too big games... Argh, I've failed.

 

[SanKakU]

Meaning don't make too big games... Argh, I've failed.

lol it's true...war3 meant to have not so many units

 

[Aeroblyctos]

Yea but also don't make too long games, I mean over... 2 hours. That would be max I guess.