JASS VS Timers?

[TechaJuan]

I was thinking of making a cinematic in one of my maps, but I'm not sure which one to use.

Would JASS be more sufficient than using timers; as in amount of memory each of them use. I just want to make the cinematic size as small as possible.

 

[Sevion]

The question makes no sense.

Timers and JASS can't be compared.

Timers run code in intervals (and is written in JASS).

JASS is a scripting language.

 

[TechaJuan]

My bad, should of been more specific.

Timers such as these, shown in this tutorial: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/trigger-gui-editor-tutorials-279/basics-cinematic-7069/

 

[Sevion]

If you're talking about the "Over X.XX seconds" parts, just use timers in JASS.

 

[Adiktuz]

I don't see the point... You can use Timers in JASS... plus I dont see a timer in that tutorial...

for those over xx seconds, you can't really change them into timers...

 

[TechaJuan]

Wrong link... http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/...-cinematic-timing-trigger-queue-timers-41694/

In this tutorial they use "trigger queue" to use as "timers", like in JASS. In short, you'll end up using more and more trigger queues in order to get your cinematic just right, which takes up space. So my question is would JASS be a more favorable choice.

P.S. Sorry for my s****y posting skills

 

[Bribe]

JASS is better than Walloo's Exact Cinematic Timing technique, but in cinematics it really doesn't matter. It's all preference at that point. Or is there some more specific question you have regarding this?

 

[TechaJuan]

Just a little more specific. I wanted to know which technique used more memory.

 

[Bribe]

Waldbaer's method will use up more memory in almost all cases. Although he does make a big deal of spamming triggers for cinematics and how it consumes RAM, but the extra RAM is probably irrelevant. Look at TimerUtils which pre-pends 250 timers, most computers won't notice the difference.

However, if your aim is to reduce handle count, JASS cinematics is the way to go. You have to code from the bottom-up, but it's not hard when you're used to it.

 

[TechaJuan]

Thank you, very helpful information.