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FPSC Classic Product Chat / [Free] Script Cleaner - Make your games load faster!

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knxrb
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Posted: 4th Jul 2009 18:15 Edited at: 30th May 2010 23:22
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Here's another of my little programs that I've made for the FPSC community

The Script Cleaner removes all unused scripts from the scriptbank folder and all subfolders.

FPSC games load all scripts in the scriptbank folder when it loads the level and by removing the unused scripts using the Script Cleaner it only loads the scripts that are required by the game

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Download: (15.8 kb)
http://www.fpscip.com/scriptcleaner/scriptcleaner.zip

I hope you all find it useful, knxrb
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Opposing force
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Posted: 4th Jul 2009 18:17
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Excellent! I get annoyed with FPSC for copying all the script files over after I've built a game. I'm going to use this from now on. Thanks knxrb.
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Awesome! Thanks for this knxrb. Does it copy any other folders in their entirety? Because then it shouldn't be too difficult to create a version to remove ALL of those folders.

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knxrb
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Posted: 4th Jul 2009 18:22
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Quote: "Does it copy any other folders in their entirety?"

It doesn't copy any folder, it delets all unused scripts.

I may add in a bit that deletes all empty folders in a later release but each folder is only around 1kb in size so it's not a big deal leaving them in

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Posted: 4th Jul 2009 18:22
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Cool and useful. Thank you very much.

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Posted: 4th Jul 2009 18:58 Edited at: 4th Jul 2009 19:09
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Quote: "it only loads the scripts that are required by the game"

SWEET
I've been wishing this was built in FPSC for a long time now.
As you can imagine I have quite a script list, and having them all in each build becomes a problem to manually delete.

Quote: "It doesn't copy any folder, it delets all unused scripts."

I hope there is a built in input validation to prevent someone from accidentally deleting the main scriptbank folder.
It looks as if you have it set up to only work on built game files, so maybe that is covered already.

My only questions are;

How does it know which scripts are used by the game and which ones are not?

Does it open and extract a list of the *.fpi from the FPE files or what?

Are you goin to take this a step further and incorporate it into a game packer?

I only ask because it seems like this would be a great function for game packers.

Thanks again KNXRB

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Posted: 4th Jul 2009 19:01 Edited at: 4th Jul 2009 19:01
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Quote: "How does it know which scripts are used by the game and which ones are not?"

It uses the 'universe.ele' file in the 'levelbank\testlevel' folder of the built game.

Quote: "Are you goin to take this a step further and incorporate it into a game packer?"

Nice idea, I might do that

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Posted: 4th Jul 2009 19:15 Edited at: 4th Jul 2009 19:15
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Thanks very much! Ver useful cause, uh...heh, i have quite a few scripts

All the best!

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Posted: 4th Jul 2009 19:15 Edited at: 4th Jul 2009 19:31
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Quote: "It uses the 'universe.ele' file in the 'levelbanktestlevel' folder of the built game."

Thanks

It's been awhile since I explored ALL of the files (4 years), so I need to go back and look again now.

I don't think that I ever opened up any ELE files before, but now that I have that is very interesting.

THANKS

Quote: "Nice idea, I might do that "

I couldn't remember if you had already made a game packer or not.
I knew a couple people have but I forgot who.
I did remember that you do make handy FPSC tools like the mulitplayer hub thingy. (I only forget the names)

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Posted: 4th Jul 2009 22:24 Edited at: 4th Jul 2009 22:25
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This is great!

You should add on to this so that it deletes all unused sounds too. Every time I build a game it copies the whole audiobank folder and I have a ton of sounds and music.

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Posted: 4th Jul 2009 22:26 Edited at: 4th Jul 2009 22:26
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Nice idea, I'll look into it

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Posted: 4th Jul 2009 23:29
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Scripts amount to like 50Kb, so they don't hit the Load Time much anyway. Great program anyway, I also noticed that FPSC copies unnecessary audio clips as well, maybe this would be good for an expansion to it?

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Make sure to scan used scripts for references to other scripts using the command runfpi or whatever it is. I have several scripts that do this so they aren't referenced in any entity.

Cool idea, I can see this being very useful, because FPSC pre-loads sounds/images referenced in scripts, so having unnecessary scripts means having other unnecessary content in memory

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Quote: "The Script Cleaner removes all unused scripts"

Correct me If I'm wrong but the "testlevel" folder contains only the files of the currently loaded level, to remove all unused scripts the user would have to load every level of his game and run the programm after each level was loaded, so it doesn't remove all unused scripts automatically.

However, the idea is still good.

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Um, i think its made for your real, finished polished game, so when you play THAT, it won't take as long

Just sayin

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Yeah, wouldn't be a good idea to run this on your FPS Creator folder, lmao.

Looking good, knxrb. This is something we've needed for a while. Great contribution.


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Posted: 5th Jul 2009 15:26 Edited at: 5th Jul 2009 15:26
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@Airslide: Aah, I didn't think of that! I'll look into searching for the runfpi command later.

@GOH Doomster: Didn't think of that either! Maybe build each level seperately, run the Script Cleaner on each built game then copy all the scriptbanks from each?

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Excellent
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Awesome idea! Thanks muchly.

Somebody should make a thread with all the utilities released for FPSC, unless there already is one (if there is one, can somebody link me to it?).

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Here you go Inspire: http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=116411&b=24.



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Thanks man!
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I downloaded it. I think it's cool, but when it finished, I got a warning about a worm (virus).



Work in progress thread: http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=150106&b=25
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Excellent! Downloading now! Thanks so much, Knxrb

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Nice one, thanks!

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...very useful program.

Now, those custom scripts can remain custom....

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Can I join with FPSCX10 ?
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This is great, and heres a solution to:

Quote: "Correct me If I'm wrong but the "testlevel" folder contains only the files of the currently loaded level, to remove all unused scripts the user would have to load every level of his game and run the programm after each level was loaded, so it doesn't remove all unused scripts automatically."


In the directory, for each level there are zip files. You could disarchiveify them using their password to get each levels universe.ele file.

A great tool that I'm gonna use time and time again.
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Posted: 6th Aug 2009 15:49 Edited at: 6th Aug 2009 15:49
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Quote: "Can I join with FPSCX10 ?"

I've never tried it with X10 so just give it a go and see if it works.

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