Long time ago.. i am back ! With questions !!!

beaudoin_n

Hi

I have not been here for a while, i had so many things in my way other opportunities and things to do that nothing moved on the apple app side for a long time.

I had encountered problems with the following things, and i wonder what is the current status of those :
1- random... wasn't really random.. is this better
2- Actors.. not too many otherwise everything blew up !! .. How many actors can i put on a level now ? Presuming no physics.

I will try to remember the other things.... i know i will try again using the iPad

cbt

beaudoin_n said:

1- random... wasn't really random.. is this better

Nope, not really. But, there is workarounds for anything you can do with "Random"

beaudoin_n said:

2- Actors.. not too many otherwise everything blew up !! .. How many actors can i put on a level now ? Presuming no physics.

Changes according to when you were here last. The last performance tweak, if I remember correctly, was too long ago.

But, the performance today is dependent (as it was before) not to the actor count, but to the rules in them.

Try it, it would be enough for a lot of games.

beaudoin_n

And how about the tool itself... does it go slower and slower and still save every 5 minutes ?

To then restart ??

I used to actually have so much lag that i could not bare to continue developping

Think 150 actors...

DrGlickert

Random, I've never had problem with random. Only problem I've had with random is in the creator. But I don't have problems when in the viewer or in ad hoc versions.

Actors; this is a question that's been asked a number of times. Myself including. Depends on what your "number" is. If you have like 200 actors, all moveable, then yes, that'll have some issues. If you have 200 actors, only 5 of which are visible and active, then that should be okay.

Depends what you're attempting to accomplish, so this is kind of a difficult question to answer.

DrGlickert

The memory leak issues are mostly resolved. I now only save and restart about once every hour instead of every 5 minutes. :-)