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Variable Strings

  • Colton-Bates     27th Mar 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    Can tmp or tmp2 store strings?
  • jacksonmj     27th Mar 2012 Developer 0 Permalink
    No. However, another property could be added to store a string.
  • Colton-Bates     21st Apr 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    (Yes, I do realize this is necro, but it relates closely enough to go here.)

    @jacksonmj (View Post)

    Does ctype store a string, or does it just store the index (DUST=1, WATR=2, etc.) of the ctype particle?

  • mniip     21st Apr 2012 Developer 0 Permalink
    Type and ctype are bytes
    vx, vy, x, y, life, tmp, tmp2 are floats on client and words on server
    dcolour is doubleword
  • Colton-Bates     21st Apr 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    Okay dokey. So currently, no strings can be stored easily in a particle's properties.
  • mniip     21st Apr 2012 Developer 0 Permalink
    I dont think it would be possible because variable length strings would eat allocation heap, and not-variable length would eat memory too much, like 50mb
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