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Robin
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I'm in the process of making a Map editor. At the moment you can add objects and lights and you can save the maps and lod them in DB. The next thing I will do is add sounds and maybe a matrix editor.

However, when the user adds an object, it is like making a new object each time, which will have an effect on speed in a final game. When the file can be loaded into DB, i have added a command to make the objects static objects and have put object occlusion on, which I thought would increase the speed slightly. However, should I be doing it a different way (this question goes particularly to people who have made map editors... ), ie. making all the objects into meshes and then adding additional objects on as limbs - would this increase speed or not?
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Hamish McHaggis
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Give an option to make them into static objects when they are loaded into db. Some people may want to move their objects in game so give a choice.

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Freddix
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yes and on some computers , statics objects crashes !

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Onyx10
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How do you load a pre-made map into darkBASIC?

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Mnemonix
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It depends on the map. And it also depends on the way the editor used to create it saved the file.

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Hamish McHaggis
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You have a smaller program that determines what all the values in the saved file means, and makes a level according to that.

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David T
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2003 21:28 Edited at: 2nd Apr 2003 21:28
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If you are having trouble with the load pauses, then you can use CLONE OBJECT. It's very fast and good for instantaneous object creation.

@Onyx:

Quote: "How do you load a pre-made map into darkBASIC?"


You first have to save all the information to a file, then write some code that will open the file, read the information and create objects from there.

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Robin
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Clone object?
is that a DBP command?
would loading seperate objects as additional limbs have any effect on speed or not?

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