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**darksun84** · 09-11-2015 12:35 AM

(09-10-2015 11:27 PM)Art Wrote: You mean item timer stops, but timerf continues working? I just not sure how works 'stack' for those timerf functions. For items it's more controllable. You can see item, etc., but timerf function hovering somewhere in memory and can't see it or 'touch', and don't know how much of those timerf functions can work at same time

When you make a save, timerf are saved in spheredata.scp in this way: (it's a sort of list structure)

Code:

[TIMERF]

CurTick=3  //always on the top of the list

TimerFCall=name ciao // function name and it's argument, called by see below

TimerFNumbers=1,1073749939,492 // I think it's a tick number, uid in decimal of the object, time left in seconds

TimerFCall=name hi

TimerFNumbers=2,1,499

TimerFCall=name hola

TimerFNumbers=3,1073750000,497

TimerFCall=name borp

TimerFNumbers=7,1073750005,495

Also notes that if you do like

Code:

timerf 10,str 100

timerf 20,str 100

timerf STOP,str 100

both timerf will be stopped.

instead

Code:

timerf 10,str 100

timerf 20,str 200

timerf STOP,str 200

Will stop only timerf 20,str 200

My opinion is that timerf are best used for "permanent" time based scripts (like a weather system?) and for short-term function that lasts for some minutes.

For NPCs, timerf doesn't stop when the sector the npc is in goes to sleep mode, so having a lot of NPCs with a lot of timerf function that runs constantly could be worst than a memory item installed in each npc.

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