Global Objects and Behaviours

[Kentronisk]

Im just wondering about these two options...

1: Global Objects: Will the application run slower if I make ALL objects global? I did some testing and saw that I can easily update graphics I use in many frames all within one frame. And I guess the same will work for behaviours I change.

2: Behaviours: Im almost certain that what Im asking for is exactly why behaviours are included, but I wanna know for sure. If I add behaviours to an enemy I have 10-20ish of in the same frame, it wont run any slower than if I had made them in the event editor? What Im kinda affraid of is if MMF runs so that it stacks up all the behaviours if its multiple of the same objects.. If you know what I mean. If I have two of an object with a behaviour, it wont run any slower than if the behaviour events were in the Event Editor?

[nivram]

Im just wondering about these two options...

1: Global Objects: Will the application run slower if I make ALL objects global? I did some testing and saw that I can easily update graphics I use in many frames all within one frame. And I guess the same will work for behaviours I change.

2: Behaviours: Im almost certain that what Im asking for is exactly why behaviours are included, but I wanna know for sure. If I add behaviours to an enemy I have 10-20ish of in the same frame, it wont run any slower than if I had made them in the event editor? What Im kinda affraid of is if MMF runs so that it stacks up all the behaviours if its multiple of the same objects.. If you know what I mean. If I have two of an object with a behaviour, it wont run any slower than if the behaviour events were in the Event Editor?

Will not run any slower in your case.

Marv

[Skyhunter]

Though, beware of global objects, i would not suggest this method at all, sometimes global object become notglobal in the editor, i had this issue in my older project where i used the same approach, what happened some objects when i was changing a value or graphics of an object in one frame it would not change it in another, i had big issues with that, and i couldn't just recopy them due to many create events, that was one of the reasons why i abandoned that project. Unfortunately this issue was never fixed.

[Kentronisk]

Oh my.. really? Have this happened to anyone else? And if so, what is the purpose of Global Objects?

[Nifflas]

Yeah, I never touch the global object option. I've had to many MMF2 bugs with those, so I'm not risking it again.

[Danny]

Global Objects and the Editor would be absolutely perfect for game engine creation as it would save a lot of events per frame. However, it is just not viable especially with qualifiers. Feedback from the dev team suggest it could only be a possibility with MMF3. If they were to implement something like this in MMF2's current state it would bog down performance quite considerably.

[N64Mario]

Yea, I've used global objects, and had some problems with the global object becoming non-global even when it was still set to global object. The only thing you can do about this is to make backups of your game before the bug happens. When it happened to me, I think was naming every one all of the object's A-Z alterable values instead of the first few ones I'm using.

Global objects do help in most cases as of a game engine like format, although I hear they are considerably buggy, even global qualifiers are supposedly buggy. But I read somewhere they're supposedly going to be fixed for MMF3.

[Kentronisk]

Hmm.. Ok then, I guess its not working properly at the moment. Thanks for replies Could've saved me for a lot of work :3