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freak
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I'm working at a little game for the retro contest (a combination between pipe dream/oil cap and tetris).

When the 991th object is created, there's an error: 'object already exists'
it seems there's a maximum object number, and when this is exeeded, it starts counting from one again.... Is this true?

Is there a way to avoid this?
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John H
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Id try just combining objects

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freak
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I have 4 collision objects which will be removed: I'll remove all colision checks and replace it by an array system which will be much faster (I hope).

But I still think its quite a limitation that you can only have about 990 objects.

I thought there was somsething like static objects, which don't have a specific object number or something like that... I don't know very much about it but I wonder if it should be solvable this way?
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Dr DooMer
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That can't be right - you should be able to have more than sixty-thousand objects, according to the help file.

Static objects might help a bit, it all depends what you're using them for, really. You see, once a static object has been created from a standard object, you can safely delete the standard object, which frees up the object number. However, static objects are exacly how they sound - completely unchanging and non-interactive. Once placed down, they don't animate, move, rotate, scale, ghost, etc and, under normal circumstances, cannot be removed individually.

I'll try writing a little program later to test your '990 object' predicament...

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QuothTheRaven
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65,000 is closer. you get the error because object 991 already exists...duh. You've already made it somewhere else in the program, but havent realized it. try making 992 or 993, you're just not seeing your old object. If you put the command
delete object 991
before you made it, it would assure you aren't trying to make an object that already exists. You haven't reached the limit, you just tried to make object 991 more than once.

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freak
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problem solved... the object for the environement had object number 1000

after having made more than 990 blocks in my game it gave this problem... now I just changed that 1000 to 10 000 and problem's solved
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