Overlays limit

ID:161429
 
May 8 2008, 9:53 am
Does one exist?
May 8 2008, 10:10 am
If it does, it's 65535. That probably is, as it's the limit of both list sizes and /image objects.
May 8 2008, 10:21 am
In response to Popisfizzy
Popisfizzy wrote:
If it does, it's 65535. That probably is, as it's the limit of both list sizes and /image objects.



Well then since I already know it's not 65535, then it most probably is some other more massive number. So I guess it's ok to be wasteful with overlays?
May 8 2008, 10:25 am
In response to Obs
That'd odd, seeing as how something I was doing before was inhibited by me running into too many overlays.
May 8 2008, 10:31 am
In response to Popisfizzy
Well then there is another possible explanation. What I did was apply an overlay to each turf, and if turfs are equal in every way including their overlays, then it is likely there is only 1 copy of the overlay just as how there is only 1 copy of the turf, even though the turf is spread over multiple locations.

But if thats not true for overlays, then you can in fact make more than 65535.
May 8 2008, 10:35 am
In response to Obs
Obs wrote:
just as how there is only 1 copy of the turf, even though the turf is spread over multiple locations.

what do you mean when a turf is spread over multiple locations theres only 1 turf? if you have a grass tile and u fill a 10x10 area of it you get 100 difrent turfs
May 8 2008, 10:36 am
In response to Falacy
Internally they're not considered different unless their variables (aside from location-related variables) are different.
May 8 2008, 10:37 am
In response to Popisfizzy
Popisfizzy wrote:
Internally they're not considered different unless their variables (aside from location-related variables) are different.

then how come you can reference them all individualy o.O
May 8 2008, 10:38 am
In response to Falacy
Likely the internally system of handing it. Turfs are very odd.
May 8 2008, 10:39 am
In response to Popisfizzy
interesting, i know when you add an object to client.screen whose screen_loc is set to something like "1,1 to 10,10" itll cover multiple locations but only read as 1 object
May 8 2008, 12:55 pm
In response to Falacy
Falacy wrote:
interesting, i know when you add an object to client.screen whose screen_loc is set to something like "1,1 to 10,10" itll cover multiple locations but only read as 1 object

You are limited to 65535 unique turfs.

If 100 identical grass tiles in a 10x10 square were all different how would you ever expect people to be able to build huge 500x500 sized maps?