Most efficient way of storing spawn data?

nicatronTg · **Author**

I'm working on a plugin that will allow players to spawn entities and interact with them, but I have the problem that I need to store who owns what(sort of like prop protection for Garry's Mod), and I'm not sure the most effective way of doing it. The only way I can think of would be via key values and storing ent IDs and associated steam ids in there, but that's a huge amount of work for data that should be cleaned on map change. Any suggestions would be great!

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FaTony · 12-20-2009 , 05:32 Re: Most efficient way of storing spawn data?

Tagged arrays.
http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=109510

rhelgeby · 12-20-2009 , 08:19 Re: Most efficient way of storing spawn data?

You should link client indexes to entity indexes.

Maybe like this:

PHP Code:


			
#define MAX_PROPS 64

new props[MAXPLAYERS + 1][MAX_PROPS];

There's a limit on maximum props that can be linked. And you might want to initialize it with -1 on all entity indexes. Otherwise I can't think of a more efficient way of storing and parsing these indexes. Arrays like these are very fast, much faster than keyvalues and such.

nicatronTg · *Last edited by nicatronTg; 12-21-2009 at 14:36.*

Hmm, I was looking into the latter example, but I'm not sure of an easy way to add data to that. Any advice/examples?

Edit: I also have to store a spawn list with around 2000 items in it in some way as well.

phogillug · 12-21-2009 , 14:55 Re: Most efficient way of storing spawn data?

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