[Trigger] Map overloading?

[lolreported]

Well, I've encountered the weirdest error ever, in my lifetime with Warcraft 3 World Editor... I think the map is overloading...

It's the map HoW (Heroes of War), some of you may recognize this map. Anyway, about the problem. The map has sometimes acted weird, like it lived its own life, do stuffs I didn't want it to do. May this be caused by to many triggers of variables? We currently have 526 triggers and 655 variables and that's A LOT indeed. I'm currently trying to optimize the map and hopefully this will help. So my question is, can the map overload and act weird due too many triggers or variables? Like, I'm using the TempPoint[0]/TempPoint[1] variable in 155 triggers and maybe there's a small chance that it now can be overwrited before my trigger finishes?

 

[Assassins-Creed]

Too many triggers will cause lag,if you have 655 variables and they all store a piece of data it might also cause lag,try to reduce the amount of triggers,maybe stuff 2 or more triggers in one.

 

[lolreported]

The thing is that at one gameplay the map only uses like 150-200 variables and a maximum of 75 triggers, because 75% of those variables and triggers are abilities. So I think it must have something to do with overwriting.

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

You should try using Locals when possible to see if that can cut down on the use of global variables - I'm not an expert in Jass, but my guess is that Locals use less space since they only need to be used within 1 trigger and aren't required to be made available for ever trigger.

 

[lolreported]

Yeah, I'm actually trying to use as much locals as possible from now. The only problem is that indexing doesn't allow locals since it requires one "setup" trigger and one "loop" trigger, so I need variables to be available for both. Anyway, instant running triggers I'll try to use as much locals as possible

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Well you could always use some jass magic to turn those 2 triggers into 1, but if you don't have the know-how to do it the it'd be pretty difficult.

 

[lolreported]

Well, yes, that would be pretty difficult for me, when I only know how to use JASS with one trigger I may learn how to make two triggers into one

 

[Axarion]

Well you could use things like SpellEvent etc to reduce trigger count. Also just registering spells which are used is a good idea.

 

[lolreported]

Yeah I'll see what I'll do. Thanks for the comments everybody!

 

[MortAr]

You are probably using a lot of array variables, when you can use 2-3 normal ones.
It is the map script that needs to utilize all of the data for 1 array variable, which is 8191 key positions.

You might also want to use local variables created through custom scripts, which will greatly reduce the count, thus allowing to initiliaze much less variables on map start.

 

[meowie]

If you reused the same variable in various trigger array. That might cause some problem i guess. My map have over 800+ variables but most of them doesn't share the same variables. Anyways you should check your backup. And Figure when this problem happened.