About the weight of objects

[BusardCendre]

Hi all,

I've been thinking about a new tool
I would like to make something that could certainly help mappers.
A little thing that would tell us how much space remains to use embedable objetcs once we have already choose some for a map.
But for that I need to know the weight of each embedable objects, and I don't know how to do with those that are in a .Pack.gbx file.
I think I could ask to objects builders what is the weight of their objects (when in a Pack), but will they be able to answer ?
Is there any solution for that ?

[novationx]

great idea and definately a must!
I hope you manage to finish this

[BusardCendre]

thanks =)
I hope too !!
I know it should take me a very long time to get icon of objects,
but I'm sure it will be usefull
but I really need to know the weight of each object ...
and with those .Pack.gbx .. I'm not sure it will be possible

[novationx]

maybe this is something NADEO should include by default in the map editor so you dont have to do it :p

"please note you can only have x kb's of custom items in your map."
" Usage : 27kbs "
" 133kbs remaining"

[maxi031]

-Option in editor to hide objects that are not embedded so we can easily find them and eliminate them if we overstepped limit.
-Gui(plugin) that will display all embedded objects instances and their total and individual weight.
-Different folder color for objects that are not part of the title pack.
-All experimental booleans to have check box "save as default" so we will be able to choose its default value when each new map is started.

[BusardCendre]

Different folder color for objects that are not part of the title pack.

love this idea =)

[TGYoshi]

Nando can also just trash the limit altogether.

[novationx]

Nando can also just trash the limit altogether.

Yeah indeed. What's the current limit anyways? 512KB ? Sounds like 1990's to me

I think they included such a low limit to avoid troll maps or smth like that? So the maps we play actually look like the game they released etc etc, no? Dunno =)

[maxi031]

Nando can also just trash the limit altogether.

Maybe they prefer 56k connections on their servers. ^^

[BusardCendre]

Martelprod gave me a solution in pm :
put on a map objects wich I know the weight and stay un little bit under the maximum of 307.2 ko
then when adding objects from a Pack.gbx, when saving the map, the game will tell what is the total weight of objects on the map, there is then only a subtaction to do ...

the idea is good, but it's going to take me a very long time to check all of them

any other idea ?