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Is there a way to check the number of objects on a map to make sure that I'm not pushing the 8192 limit? (Or whatever the limit is).

Run the ASCII BZN though a script?

BZNs are just lists of variables so you would need to come up with something slightly more complex than a string finder though.

EDIT:
Idea 2: Custom DLL where all it does is increment a counter every time AddObject(Handle h) is called and prints out the number. The last number it prints when you load the map is your object count.

i use notepad++ and use 'find all in current file' for 'label =' in an ascii save of the map

If you start running out of objects you can just clump a bunch of objects together (like trees) in a single model like Lizard did on his 'Site B' map.

All are good suggestions. Thankyou!

N1, does AddObject account for pre-placed map objects?

http://members.ziggo.nl/red_spot/BZ2.rar

Try that, took me a few minutes to make ..
Left some files in there to show you how it works (just dump any map that needs to be checked into the folder that contains the excel file).

Does not come with any sort of error handling though.

bigbadbogie wrote:All are good suggestions. Thankyou!

N1, does AddObject account for pre-placed map objects?

Yes it does, good nugget of info for later mission scripting.

RD's note is good.
Without looking at RedSpot's link, if its a program or some such to count it, probably counts the occurrences of what RD noted about BZNs.

ZA's suggestion is a good one for when/if issues come up.

I think it's hard to hit the limit personally. Even when in my early (now shelved) Reactor Wars development I had entire minutes of playtime with degrading performance before a crash when I had a bug in my code that made it spawn my 4 force-fields 10 times per second (without removing the old ones).

Nielk1 wrote:Without looking at RedSpot's link, if its a program or some such to count it, probably counts the occurrences of what RD noted about BZNs.

Little macro that opens every .bzn in the folder that has the provided excel file in it and counts for how many occurances of "[GameObject]" it finds.

In case you really need to search for "label", just follow below instruction.

Change the line saying:
Range("B1").Formula = "=COUNTIF(A:A,""[GameObject]"")"

to:
Range("B1").Formula = "=COUNTIF(A:A,""label*"")"

I assume you know how to open the VB editor

gameobject is probably better