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| **To correctly use UniqueTid, you need to use the same start value in the whole project.** | **To correctly use UniqueTid, you need to use the same start value in the whole project.** | ||
| - | ==== Zandronum | + | ==== Zandronum ==== |
| - | There is also a Zandronum | + | There is also a Zandronum bug: tids over 32767 are not transmitted to clients. This means that you generally shouldn' |
| ==== The solution ==== | ==== The solution ==== | ||
| - | NewTid is a function designed to solve both these problems. To use NewTid, you first specify the first tid it may allocate using a global #define in your project: | + | NewTid is a function designed to solve both these problems. To use NewTid, you first specify the first tid it may allocate using a global #define in your project, for example: |
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| - | And NewTid() will return safe tids without any parameters required. NewTid() will prefer Zandronum | + | And NewTid() will return safe tids without any parameters required. NewTid() will prefer Zandronum-safe tids (below 32767) and only switch to Zandronum-unsafe tids if all safe tids are occupied, which can only happen if you have spawned an insane amount of actors with different tids. |
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| + | ===== Examples ===== | ||
| + | Just use NewTid like UniqueTid without specifying any error-prone boundaries: | ||
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| + | int tid = NewTid(); | ||
| + | Spawn(" | ||
| + | </ | ||
| - | ==== NewTid ==== | ||
| - | Returns a new safe tid. | ||
functions/newtid.txt · Last modified: 2017/04/15 17:29 by korshun