[ian-reeds-games] Re: Dev 40: Huge save game improvements and some new bugs
- From: Austen Perry <austentheaxewielder@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 16:13:58 -0500
hi ian,
i guess from the update, loading units in to others no longer works.
i updated tb and started a map, and the first thing i tried was
loading a unit in a vehicle, and it said he couldn't be loaded where
dev 39 was still ok.
this was not after loading a saved game, and in fact i did not try
saving or loading.
my guess is that somewhere the removing of points messed with the
loading scripts.
this is seriously going to hault production of a lot of my work as a
lot of the current stuff evolves around the load feature.
austen
On 11/2/13, Ian Reed <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Several months ago I attempted to fix the problems with saving and loading.
> I spent several days on it and in the end couldn't get the new system
> working.
>
> After dev 39 I attacked the problem again from a different angle, and
> failed again.
> Fortunately that new angle brought me to better understand the problem.
> So I had a third attempt at it and I'm very happy to say that saving and
> loading is now very fast and much more memory efficient.
> I'm thinking this may solve all the out of memory exceptions people
> would get when saving.
>
> I used Allan's first Warlords map for testing and my focus was on
> getting the save game size down as much as I could, which in turn helped
> the speed of saving and loading.
>
> My test case was to open Allan's map, then save to see how big the file
> came out.
>
> Here are my results:
> Save game size
> was: 23847 KB
> now: 2295 KB
>
> Saving and loading times in seconds was:
> save game 4.0822478
> load game 22.2466055
> Now:
> save game 0.160851
> load game 0.2320303
>
> As you can see the new saved game size is less than one tenth of the
> original.
> And the time it takes to load is 95.8 times faster than previously.
>
> It turns out there were some gross memory inefficiencies that started
> with the feature that let you do things like attack_health_inflict
> directly in a unit file, and later compounded by random damage and healing.
> So while these inefficiencies were my fault I'm quite glad to have them
> greatly reduced.
> I wish I could have fixed it ages ago, but I'm just not that smart, smile.
>
> As with many updates old saves will not work in the new version and this
> is especially true this time.
>
> I had to change a good amount of code to get these benefits, and
> whenever I change a lot of code it is likely new bugs will appear.
> I've played through simple fight and defeating your dark side without
> any errors.
> I've also played the first warlords map enough to kill some orcs.
> So if you're interested in helping me find the bugs feel free to update
> and give it a shot.
> If you're sick of all the bugs then don't get dev 40. Wait for dev 42
> or so, smile.
>
> And a special apology to Craig as I had to make all the unused point
> objects null in order to reduce save game size.
> Sorry if this breaks your scripts.
>
> Thanks for your patience.
> Ian Reed
>
>
>
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