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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Annoying Pause when Making a Unit

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Renegade Andy
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Posted: 21st May 2006 04:38
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Hey guys. I have a "makeunit function" ok.

All this does is load and setup a new unit, basically a .x object.

However, everytime this happens - the game freezes for about 0.5 seconds whilst that model is loaded, i cannot afford this pause - it feels weird and doesnt really make the game flow lol.

How do i remove this pause - without pre loading like 200 of these objects before the program has even run?

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Kevin Picone
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Posted: 21st May 2006 05:08
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If your loading the same object/unit each time, then you should look at the Clone or Instance Object commands instead. Functions like Load & Deleting object really aren't designed for real time use in Dbpro.


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indi
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Posted: 21st May 2006 05:25
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changing the x model to dbo will greatly increase loading times.

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Renegade Andy
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Posted: 21st May 2006 14:06
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Ok - how do i use the clone or instance code?

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RUCCUS
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Posted: 21st May 2006 14:19
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Look it up, its fairly straight forward...

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Renegade Andy
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Posted: 21st May 2006 14:34
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INSTANCE OBJECT 101,spawnworker

which equals 1001 doesnt work, it doesnt turn blue either.

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Renegade Andy
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Posted: 21st May 2006 15:22
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when i use clone object spawnworker,1

it loads an instance of the model but it doesnt texture the model!

Why!

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Pincho Paxton
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You probably have to texture it. Load the texture before the game starts, and then texture the model after you clone it. That's what you have to do in DB Classic, but I don't know about DB Pro.

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Renegade Andy
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Posted: 21st May 2006 17:51
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But you dont need to do that otherwise, argh.

Ok so i do - load image "models\dwarf.jpg", 60

and then texture object spawnworker,60

???

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Renegade Andy
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that still doesnt work - just tried it.

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Pincho Paxton
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Well did you texture the clone, or the original model, because you are supposed to texture the clone. It should work.

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Renegade Andy
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Posted: 21st May 2006 18:29
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I textured the clone :

Clone object spawnworker,256
texture object spawnworker,60

and thats after loading

load image "models\dwarf.jpg",60
load object "models\dwarf1.x", 256

those at the beginning of the code.

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Maybe jpg does not work, try bmp.

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Renegade Andy
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Posted: 21st May 2006 20:21
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Nope. Tried that also - still nothing.

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