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Flugente rant #5: useless crap that does nothing[message #331347]

Tue, 18 March 2014 02:44

Flugente

Messages:3507
Registered:April 2009
Location: Germany

Sometimes, our belove code pisses me off, and spamming the IRC with obscenities won't do. In these cases, I will open such a thread, to let the world know how the code wronged me today :computer2:

Today's lesson: People that have been here longer than me might remember that there once was soemthing called AStar-pathing. I don't know the details... it apparently never worked and got a lot of people pissed?

Anyway, nowadays it is turned off. But not entirely :angry:

I found this gem in worlddef.cpp:

BOOLEAN						gubWorldTileInLight[ MAX_ALLOWED_WORLD_MAX ];
BOOLEAN						gubIsCorpseThere[ MAX_ALLOWED_WORLD_MAX ];
INT32						gubMerkCanSeeThisTile[ MAX_ALLOWED_WORLD_MAX ];

coupled with

#define MAX_ALLOWED_WORLD_MAX		WORLD_COLS_MAX*WORLD_ROWS_MAX // (2000 cols x 2000 rows)

leads to the game potentially allocating ~24 MB.
Which it does... at the end of every turn in Handle Ui.cpp (I've cleaned up the code somewhat. Weird symbols are apparently cyrillic or orkish or whatever):

////ddd

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Captain

Re: Flugente rant #5: useless crap that does nothing[message #331350]

Tue, 18 March 2014 04:02

Anthropoid

Messages:145
Registered:February 2014

So, you just deleted it? That would be my 'solution!'

Pretty sure those strange characters are the Black Speech, used by the used the Nazg

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Sergeant

Re: Flugente rant #5: useless crap that does nothing[message #331355]

Tue, 18 March 2014 10:49

silversurfer

Messages:2791
Registered:May 2009

I always wondered why there was a pause at the end of the turn. Glad you could fix that. :thumbsup:

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Lieutenant

Re: Flugente rant #5: useless crap that does nothing[message #331364]

Tue, 18 March 2014 18:06

wanne (aka RoWa21)

Messages:1961
Registered:October 2005
Location: Austria

good catch flugente

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Sergeant Major

Re: Flugente rant #5: useless crap that does nothing[message #331365]

Tue, 18 March 2014 18:37

Gambigobilla

Messages:693
Registered:July 2008

I don't know if this counts for something but it's part of sth called "ddd" mod, commited by "bugmonster" in rev3789. Found it in https://ja2svn.no-ip.org/source/ja2/branches/Wanne/JA2%201.13%20MP

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First Sergeant

Re: Flugente rant #5: useless crap that does nothing[message #331373]

Tue, 18 March 2014 23:08

wanne (aka RoWa21)

Messages:1961
Registered:October 2005
Location: Austria

Gambigobilla

I don't know if this counts for something but it's part of sth called "ddd" mod, commited by "bugmonster" in rev3789. Found it in https://ja2svn.no-ip.org/source/ja2/branches/Wanne/JA2%201.13%20MP

I think the orignal purpose of bugmonsters code was to avoid corpses and light tiles by the enemy pathing, but it did not work correctly.

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Sergeant Major

Re: Flugente rant #5: useless crap that does nothing[message #331378]

Wed, 19 March 2014 01:15

Kriplo

Messages:256
Registered:February 2008
Location: Zagreb - Croatia

ADB code will live forever and we should tribute this code and his author with most respect as without it v1.13 would not be the same :party:

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