Question about leaks.

[Rugarus]

In the game I'm working on the human players which can be 10 players. Each can train about 80 units or so, and they all have a detonate ability. When they use that ability it kills the unit, does the game automatically remove the leak if it's not done via trigger. Or will I have to add these units to a unit group and delete it via a trigger?

If that's the case, is the best way of doing this using an array of 10 indexes. And adding the dead units to the specific index unit group and then removing the unit group everytime the detonate spell is casted?

^ I can word that better if it doesn't make sense.

 

[Jampion]

In general as units are also objects in the game, they should be removed once they are no longer needed.
Fortunately the game automatically removes units after they decayed.
So in this case you don't need to do anything.

This has nothing to with untis groups. Creating a unit group and removing it will not affect the units inside the group. You would have to use the "Unit - Remove unit" action for every unit in the unit group. But as said above, untis are automatically removed by the game after they decayed.

 

[Rugarus]

Sweet thanks.

 

[Dr Super Good]

When they use that ability it kills the unit, does the game automatically remove the leak if it's not done via trigger. Or will I have to add these units to a unit group and delete it via a trigger?

The game will automatically free most of the resources used by units that are removed, but not all. There is no way to remove a unit in a leak free way. That said the leak is so trivial even creating and removing 20,000 units will not do much.

Some people even argue the leak does not exist, with Warcraft III eventually freeing up the memory used by those units.

 

[DaneTheBeast]

I feel the proof for this leak is obvious -- I find myself having to restart the game after long and unit-heavy games, if I don't then Warcraft could crash due to memory issues mid-way thorough another game