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Entity Limit and Nexus #9861 07/25/02 10:23 07/25/02 10:23
Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 644 USA tesanders OP Developer
tesanders OP Developer Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 644 USA	Is there a way to divorce the Entity Limit from the Nexus? =thomas

Re: Entity Limit and Nexus #9862 07/25/02 10:58 07/25/02 10:58
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mudhole Member Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 248 NZ	The maximum number of entities is controlled by the variable max_entities, which must be set before loading the level. By default it is set to 10 * nexus, but you can change its value to be whatever you want.

Re: Entity Limit and Nexus #9864 07/25/02 23:36 07/25/02 23:36
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tesanders OP Developer Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 644 USA	What I'm concerned about is that the nexus determines how many MB are used for caching -- that doesn't seem directly related to max number of entities, per se. Is it possible, then, to keep a low nexus and raise max_entities? =thomas

Re: Entity Limit and Nexus #9865 07/27/02 16:52 07/27/02 16:52
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Anonymous Unregistered A	The max entities is 4096, no matter what you set your max_entites variable to...dont ask me how I found out

Re: Entity Limit and Nexus #9866 07/27/02 17:28 07/27/02 17:28
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Phantom88 Expert Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 1,407 Helsinki, Finland	quote: Originally posted by AcidCrow: The max entities is 4096, no matter what you set your max_entites variable to...dont ask me how I found out No, the maximum of VISIBLE entities is 4096. If you have more entities outside the screen it works. ~Phantom88~ Programmer, Gamer ICQ #: 157485106 \| Xfire: Phantom1988 \| MSN: lauri_andler@hotmail.com \| AIM: FinPhantom \| YAHOO: FinPhantom

Re: Entity Limit and Nexus #9867 07/27/02 17:34 07/27/02 17:34
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Anonymous Unregistered A	really, I didnt think they were all visible when I did it, since I was using a randomize code for their creation...make me wonder how many total ones I had then....

Re: Entity Limit and Nexus #9868 07/28/02 00:33 07/28/02 00:33
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tesanders OP Developer Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 644 USA	Ah. Didn't know you could manually set max_entities. Thanks. =thomas

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