[General] Will having lots of neutral passive units lag my game?

[Gumberbunbder]

Hi, I'm making a map that has a lot of invisible units with no model and are neutral and non controllable which provide auras to players units when they are around them. One type of these units is a "Forest Unit" which is placed around trees and provides a forest buff to nearby units.

Will placing several hundred of these types of units cause problems for my game? Will this generate unit lag even though these units aren't doing anything and have no model? Thank you for reading my question! Have a good day!

 

[Dr Super Good]

Most likely it will degrade performance. With that many units interacting with other units there is bound to be some resource overhead.

 

[Gumberbunbder]

Thank you! I will try to make just 1 of those units per tree patch instead of several.

 

[BETABABY]

Well, you could make a trigger where if your hero is in that region it is then given a buff.

It's relatively easy to solve especially if your map is consist of thick jungle, just make the aura's area of effect very large.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Question: How many player controlled units are in your map at the same time?

Because if player controlled units are far rarer then trees, it might be way more performant to just periodically enumerate all destructables around these units and if there is a destructable of type 'tree' within range of any of these units, add the buff to the unit. If not, remove it.

It's quite literally a t(h)ree-liner. Hehe...

 

[BETABABY]

Both works fine respectively.. but if you want accurate results, then i suggest you should take Zwiebelchen's