Custom Buildings Loaded on Proximity for Each Player

[Donnovan]

Hi,

I'm working in put my server custom building local in each client and make then only show up when the player is near it. In this way i can have tons of custom buildings and each player will only see the ones near hin.

The buildings will be local on server too and 100% show up so AI know then.

The problem:

Istead of using createVehicle to spawn the buildings, objects, etc.. i need to use createVehicleLocal.

Sadly, createVehicleLocal does not have the "CAN_COLLIDE" placement, so it will change the location of the building if it overlap with another model.

Any way to spawn with createVehicleLocal using "CAN_COLLIDE" placement?

Thankyou!

[ProtossMaster]

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[jahangir13]

@Donnovan: what is the purpose of doing so?

[Zupa]

I think something simular was being discusses on the scripter skype group. If you are not in it, i recommend u join^^

[jahangir13]

Scripter Skype Group. Never heard about it ;) ?

[Donnovan]

jahangir13, the purpose is to only have spawned on the map the custom buildings that are inside the player view distance, and allow a huge amount of custom buildings.

A also never heard about this group. Will take a look!

Zupa, you don't need to do the spawn by model, you can do it per city/group_of_buildings.

So all over the map you have a low number of visibility checks.

[oSoDirty]

I may be wrong, but i would imagine it would have to be client side. This being said, if you do this it would impact the server FPS every time a player was in proximity of said buildings.

And in a populated server with players spread all over the place it would cause some pretty major lag. If this makes any difference on performance at all, i would guess it would be a loss in performance.

Please feel free to correct me if im wrong.