I realize this is an old thread but I'm running into problems getting
the system you've described to work.
It seems to work ok for maps with a limited number of entities but when
the number increases to roughly 550 entities I get an "ED_Alloc: no
free edicts" error.
Basically I run through the current list of entities and delete those
that I don't need. Then I call MapEntity_ParseAllEntities to get them
all back using a cached version of the original map string.
My first thought was that UTIL_Remove wasn't actually clearing stuff out
until the next frame so I tried waiting to call Map...Entities() but no
luck. I've also tried calling SetFree() on every edict that's deleted.
Does anyone have any insight?
Thanks,
-Tim
Chris Janes wrote:
Ok, I got this sorted (pretty much) recently - it may not be the tidiest way
of doing it, but it works!
What I did was create a filter class (I found it while looking through the
verc forums -
http://www.chatbear.com/board.plm?a=viewthread&t=549,1104207081,14733&b=4991
&id=767996&v=flatold&s=20) which lets me track the entities that I want to
*keep* through a restart. Once I had that, I needed access to the list of
entities that the current map contains, which is as far as I can tell, only
available when the map loads, so I put in a couple of extra procedures in
the IGameSystem class (a global singleton interface to the game rules).
These let me cache a copy of the entity list from
CServerGameDLL::LevelInit_ParseAllEntities() (found in
sdk_gameinterface.cpp).
With that information, I was able to loop through all the entities, check if
I they needed deleting - use UTIL_Remove on them to do so. Once the entity
list was clear, I call MapEntity_ParseAllEntities with the map entity list
and the filter. Then it's just a case of calling the spawn function on the
players.
A full list of the changes - new procedures etc can be found here :
http://www.hidden-source.com/round-restart.php
One thing to note, it doesn't remove decals or debris, I assume they're
temporary effects on the client side - not that big a deal.
Ging
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Davison
Sent: 24 February 2005 23:35
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Resetting entites on round restart.
I belive mapenties.h is a start, but I would like to hear frm people who
have already done it or done work on it.
I'm having a hard time getting my head around it.
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:19:04 -0800, Stephen Micheals
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Im also interested on how to do this.
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