BlastEntity or maybe NukeEntity
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| Hi all, I've been looking for the fastest way to get rid of an unwanted entity. Said entity has thousands (oh say 16,000) surfaces, and one poly per surface (although each one has a different brush config). Fortunately it has no textures. How can I get rid of it quickly? FreeEntity can take up to thirty seconds to get rid of it! All I want to do is Nuke it from existence! Any ideas? |
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| is clearsurface then freeentity a faster method? |
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| Can't you just HideEntity and never use it again? |
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| that would be memory leak. Bad thing when reinstanciating the same kind of object.. ie particle system. |
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| I would suggest you keep each as a seperate entity. This way you are able to free them in the background over the course of a few seconds without any noticable lagging. |
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| Perhaps you can find a way to reduce the number of surfaces? Vertex color maybe? |
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| Can't you delete surfaces one at a time? Then you could do like Rob says. |
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| that would be memory leak. Bad thing when reinstanciating the same kind of object.. ie particle system. Erm, I doubt he needs many 16,000 surface entities! |
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| Hi there, Funny enough, deleting each surface doesn't take much time (a few seconds). But finally deleting the entity does! Keeping it is not an option, as I need to load another one straight after. Vertex colors sounds promising! Thanks |
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| How would vertex color help? I don't know much about this :D (sorry for the semi-hijack) |
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| Since I only need to show colored triangles, I could set up a load of unwelded triangles and set their vertex colors to do the coloring. That way I could do it all a few surfaces unstead of loads. I have a temporary solution. I clear the surfaces, then reuse the entity for the next model by refilling the surfaces with verts and tris. Any surfaces I don't need are kept blank. This means it's only reallllly slow when I try to shut down. |
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