[Spell] Making an Efficient Projectile

[NME Ironarrow]

Hello everyone!
My problem is a little complicated but hear me out please!
I'm currently working on my map which I have there some custom abilities which shoots projectiles, these projectiles suppose to detect if there are enemies near them and trigger something.
Since the max speed in wc3 is pretty slow for a projectile i create them as followed:

Every 0.03 move the projectile and check for enemies to function accordingly.
But this implementation is quite heavy even after I take care of the leaks!
So my question is how to make this process more efficient?
Thanks for reading!

 

[Devalut]

Some things off the top of my head:
- Swapping the "unit" projectile for a special effect. (a few of my majority of my resources do this.)
- Fast projectiles, or fast enough that missiles do not "linger" as to have more than a set number on screen.

But why not post what you have currently and we can discuss what might be giving you grief.

 

[noob]

If you want graphical projectiles that moves in a straight line you can make dummy units that shoots 0 dmg projectiles at points using the attack zone ability and since you know the speed of the projectiles you can know the position at each frame and check for opponents at the planned position.
Now the question is: is it as efficient as using "move projectile"
Remind yourself to use dummy recyclers for performances.
I do not know how performant it would be but the disadantage is low variability and no curved paths.

 

[Uncle]

Relativistic Missiles

 

[NME Ironarrow]

Here is an example of how I implemented a spell, the two units i want to move are saved in the hashtable and move accordingly to the trigger.
But I found out that if this spell will have a low cooldown (such as 1 second) the fps of the game will drop drastically if i use it too many times.
By the way noob I don't know what is dummy recyclers so a brief explanation will be great
If you have a good answer for that i will be glad!

 

[Uncle]

Here is an example of how I implemented a spell, the two units i want to move are saved in the hashtable and move accordingly to the trigger.
But I found out that if this spell will have a low cooldown (such as 1 second) the fps of the game will drop drastically if i use it too many times.
By the way noob I don't know what is dummy recyclers so a brief explanation will be great
If you have a good answer for that i will be glad!

Fixes:
1: You're leaking a lot of points
2: Use special effects instead of Dummy units

Fps drops are basically unavoidable if you're firing this many missiles at once. That being said, the system I linked above handles this stuff better than anything else we have on Hive.