Build suggestion.

[Chip]

This is something that has got in the way many times and I'm sure many people will benefit from it.

Here it is:
Increase the max wall limits in build.

16000 walls is too small for some of us who do high quality building. So could it be increased?
This also brings me to the question of:
When build had the sprites and sectors limits increased by x4, why was the walls only increased by x2?

[Roger]

Doesn't Jonof already have raised limits?

[TerminX]

Chip said:
This is something that has got in the way many times and I'm sure many people will benefit from it.

Here it is:
Increase the max wall limits in build.

16000 walls is too small for some of us who do high quality building. So could it be increased?
This also brings me to the question of:
When build had the sprites and sectors limits increased by x4, why was the walls only increased by x2?


The limits are where they are because of technical reasons which have been discussed previously. Put simply, the values are stored in a 14 bit number, giving a maximum of 16384. I can rather safely say that they will never, ever be raised any further, as nobody really wants to rewrite all of the code that would be necessary to mess with.

[Manson]

I assume it would be useless to surgest that we could simply write a little script to run through the source, which checks weather we write or read from the storage 'variable' and then rewrite the structure?
Possibly some more code should be rewritten by the prog, but that could be done as well.

I am gonna do a similar script for some of my camera AI coding anyway, so I might be able to do it if you like?

[TerminX]

Manson said:
I assume it would be useless to surgest that we could simply write a little script to run through the source, which checks weather we write or read from the storage 'variable' and then rewrite the structure?
Possibly some more code should be rewritten by the prog, but that could be done as well.

I am gonna do a similar script for some of my camera AI coding anyway, so I might be able to do it if you like?


No, sorry, completely breaking the current map format and going through 90,000 lines of source code to find what the program missed is not an option.

[Killd a ton]

that mgiht also end up making old maps unloadable

[Manson]

I fail to see how a simple check for the mapformat shouldn't work,,, It just might be about time for a new map format anyway,,,,

[TerminX]

Killd a ton said:
that mgiht also end up making old maps unloadable


This is correct. Also, I guess it's more like 220,000 lines of source, as I forgot to include SW in that figure. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Killd a ton]

Manson said:
I fail to see how a simple check for the mapformat shouldn't work,,, It just might be about time for a new map format anyway,,,,



you go ahead an make it then http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[AlgorithMan]

Killd a ton said:

Manson said:
I fail to see how a simple check for the mapformat shouldn't work,,, It just might be about time for a new map format anyway,,,,



you go ahead an make it then http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif



hehe http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif