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DeletedUser

11-08-2002 03:38 PM

I talked to Quagmire, he said that it was possible to do it the right way but that its not really worth it, the difference is rather small (less than a megabyte of ram). So I guess that will be the solution for now, the proper way would be to select the max id from the database, but with such a small difference in ram usage, it seems to be pointless.

quester

11-08-2002 03:45 PM

I thought about doing it that way, but I got tired of backtrackign through the coee to figure out exactly where it was allocated.. so I took the easy route :p

DeletedUser

11-08-2002 03:48 PM

You and Quagmire would make great friends (he said and did the same thing) :P

quester

11-08-2002 04:07 PM

Well I found what would need to be changed.. bt its a pain. You'd have to add a new callback for the exe to use just to determine the MAX id, so you can allocate it properly in the OpenNPCTypesMMF function.

Code:

// Would need to add a second callback here to retrieve the 

// max id and pass that in to OpenNPCTypes

        int8 ret = OpenNPCTypesMMF(iNPCTypesCount);

        MMFNPCTypes->MaxNPCTypeID = iMaxNPCTypeID;

        MMFNPCTypes->NPCTypeCount = iNPCTypesCount;

        if (ret == 2) {

                AddNPCTypeAllowed = true;

                // use a callback so the DB functions are done in the main exe

                // this way the DLL doesnt have to open a connection to mysql

                cbDBLoadNPCTypes(MMFNPCTypes->NPCTypeCount, MMFNPCTypes->MaxNPCTypeID);

                AddNPCTypeAllowed = false;

                MMFNPCTypes->Loaded = true;

                return true;

        }

I'll look into doing that.. but at the moment my brain is fuzzy.. and i'm pissed that my bard just died in OT and lost a level.. so i'm off to take a walk or something :p

DeletedUser

11-08-2002 04:12 PM

Just to tell you Quagmire fixed the bug where no npcs were in the db and it would cause a crash.

Damilis

12-07-2002 06:13 AM

Well, i have been diving throught the boards day in and day out, and i believe that i have this 65535 is not enough syndrome. Went into Vis C++ to recompile emusharemem.dll with a MMF_MAX_NPCTYPE_ID = like 150000 or so. It compiled a dll of about 233kb which is way bigger than the 52kb dll used now. and of courses, errors out the wazoo with the windows closing faster than i can read them so i dont know what the errors are. I probably overlooked something simple, i do that a lot. Any words of wizdom from those who created?

thanks

Pneu	12-09-2002 11:43 AM

None-the-less I think what we have here is a simple miss-understanding. Possibly less than 65535 mobs but ID no's over 65535?

Either way it's simply a case of terse written communication that i'm sure would never have happened in a more verbose vocal environment. Calm down people, nothing to see here.

*Awards random hugs and a smile*

Pneu

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