Re: [Quake-C] Tracebox / Traceline

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On 2016-02-12 22:17, Cobalt wrote:
> I suppose to eliminate this, you could use makestatic (blah), instead 
> of
> remove () however I believe it still retains all the field data 
> including
> the model etc, and during a single player game I believe it will appear 
> to
> vanish and not be drawn, but in multiplayer if another player joins, 
> they
> will see this edict as its part of the sign on packet.
> 

There is a limit on static entities.

quakedef.h:#define	MAX_STATICENTITIES		1024 ///< limit on size of 
cl.static_entities

> If there was a true null entity we could use copyentity () on, maybe 
> that
> would work?
> So now at least we have a counterpart to world which does not have any
> fields that we can essentially null the ent out, and its not a free 
> ent, so
> that means it wont be reused again.

There is also a limit on entities.  I bet this is a hard limit - it can 
not be increased without a major engine re-write.

quakedef.h:#define	MAX_EDICTS				32768 ///< max number of objects in 
game world at once (32768 protocol limit)

Probably dont want lots of ents to pile up.  It will eventually kill the 
server.
You want the engine to clear out removed ents like it was designed.

Most likely you want good entity management in general.
Find a way to make code bulletproof against the root problem - like the 
system_hash I mentioned.