Spell Editor by Bleh, Ailia

[AndMetal]

I know when you parse the spell file with PHP, it takes between 100 & 200 MB of RAM to process (you have to change the per-script max amount of memory in order for it to work), so that sounds about right. To be honest, I'm not sure why it takes that much, because it does seem like a lot of memory for such a relatively small file.

[AiliaMorisato]

Honestly its rather simple. When it is parsed, it is stored in a dictionary of string values. Strings aren't a simple data type but a class instance which uses up quite a lot more data than an integer or similar types.

When you consider 203 strings per line and thousands of lines, it adds up very quickly. It could be easily optimized to a very large extent, however it makes the program more complicated and thus not really worth the effort when most modern computers have large amounts of ram.

[ChaosSlayer]

yeah you prabobly right =)
your time better spent on making it a better tool rather than optimizating it

[ChaosSlayer]

i finaly starting to hevaily work with the new spell editor and there few things I need help with.

Could you guys explain to me how excatly spell group and duration formula affect the spell?

I have a problem where spells only seem to last for a tiny fraction of a set time (3 min instead of 30), and some spells refuse to have their time to be altered at all - spell like Regeneration stays at 20 min no matter if I set it more or less than that