"It was green!!" =P

CheeToS2 · #1 09-13-2002, 06:48 AM

Would it be possible to freeze a player until their level (not npcs) have fully loaded? It would only have to happen once, since theres never a chance of a level being green afterwards.. heres what i'm talking about:

emortylone · #2 09-13-2002, 08:07 AM

GMAPs preload NPC's I believe. That would be what you want to do I assume?
---Shifter

Tyhm · #3 09-13-2002, 08:23 AM

He wants the map to load the connecting levels before players can walk across them, to prevent players from walking into a house or so before the level loads.

Dach · #4 09-13-2002, 08:40 AM

Used to be that way, but it changed back after one of those big updates. I have no idea why though...

emortylone · #5 09-13-2002, 10:34 AM

GMAPs would only load the outside levels... you might have a script that if (playerleaves) to freeze2 and have one of the scripts in every level that unfreezes. So it would freeze when entering a level, and when the scripts load, it would unfreeze... I think that'd work.
---Shifter

Tyhm · #6 09-13-2002, 11:38 AM

Or have an NPCW handle it on playerenters

CheeToS2 · #7 09-13-2002, 05:01 PM

I'm not talking about doing it with scripts, i'm talking about fixing the problem in the EXE. Maybe this thread should belong in the bugs forum instead =\

emortylone · #8 09-13-2002, 10:57 PM

But what is the point of HAVING to fix the EXE when it can be done VIA scripts, the best thing around :P
---Shifter

AlexH · #9 09-13-2002, 11:29 PM

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Originally posted by emortylone
But what is the point of HAVING to fix the EXE when it can be done VIA scripts, the best thing around :P
---Shifter

Because it's much more efficient to have it in the exe.
It shouldn't be a choice to wheter you want green fields or not, the game's not suposed to do that therefore it is a bug in the exe which should be fixed.

CheeToS2 · #10 09-14-2002, 06:39 AM

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Originally posted by AlexH

Because it's much more efficient to have it in the exe.
It shouldn't be a choice to wheter you want green fields or not, the game's not suposed to do that therefore it is a bug in the exe which should be fixed.

exactly
i'm sure no PW would like that happenning, so it should be fixed all-around -_-

emortylone · #11 09-14-2002, 11:08 AM

I was just playing btw, for the few of you who didn't catch that

But yes, it should be fixed. But the Grassy field is the default, it should show black i think and freeze you until it has loaded.
---Shifter

Poogle · #12 09-15-2002, 09:11 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by CheeToS2
Would it be possible to freeze a player until their level (not npcs) have fully loaded? It would only have to happen once, since theres never a chance of a level being green afterwards.. heres what i'm talking about:

preload would be better

CheeToS2 · #13 09-15-2002, 09:50 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by emortylone
I was just playing btw, for the few of you who didn't catch that But yes, it should be fixed. But the Grassy field is the default, it should show black i think and freeze you until it has loaded.
---Shifter

yeah, that'd be an easier way for it to be fixed

Com013 · #14 09-16-2002, 01:11 AM

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Originally posted by Poogle
preload would be better

Currently it is trying to preload it. But when the connection or the server is slow it might not have finished with loading it.

R0b1n-NPC · #15 09-22-2002, 09:31 AM

what ever happened to the "loading" text in the corner of the screen apon entering a level?

or has my super adsl 1mbit connection disabled it? :P