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hello, i want to ask here.
are picking unit every 0.5 seconds below are causing a lag?
are picking unit every 0.5 seconds below are causing a lag?
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This depends on some factors:
- how many units you pick (and the biggest number of units you can pick)
- are they in a unit group
Example:
I want to check if each murlock unit is in water and has some specific buff. I have over 300 units over the whole map and thus the process of creating a unit group, iterating through each unit to determine if it is murlock or not and then iterating through each murlock in the unit group and checking if it is in water and has buff and finally destroying that group (and all that every 0.5 seconds) will probably end up being very taxing on the game (considering it's a fully developed game with other mechanics than just this one thing).
In this case it's better to create a specific unit group that will hold all murlock units in it and update this group with triggers that fire upon "unit enters playable map area" and "unit dies" and then periodically every 0.5 seconds check only that unit group. In this case you would just iterate through each murlock unit in the group only once to check relevant stuff.
- how many units you pick (and the biggest number of units you can pick)
- are they in a unit group
Example:
I want to check if each murlock unit is in water and has some specific buff. I have over 300 units over the whole map and thus the process of creating a unit group, iterating through each unit to determine if it is murlock or not and then iterating through each murlock in the unit group and checking if it is in water and has buff and finally destroying that group (and all that every 0.5 seconds) will probably end up being very taxing on the game (considering it's a fully developed game with other mechanics than just this one thing).
In this case it's better to create a specific unit group that will hold all murlock units in it and update this group with triggers that fire upon "unit enters playable map area" and "unit dies" and then periodically every 0.5 seconds check only that unit group. In this case you would just iterate through each murlock unit in the group only once to check relevant stuff.
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