Question on world.removeJunk function

[AKA_Clutter]

Hi all,

 

I have a few questions on the world.removeJunk function.  I have added it to a test mission and it seems to work, or at least it doesn't throw any errors.

1. I read a few reports that this function was causing crashes, both ser4vers and clients.  Has this been fixed and is it now working?

2. Assuming it's working, what would be the use case?  Does removing the dead persistent units improve or is it primarily for ascetics.

3. are there  limitations on the size of the sphere to use?  Would it be better to use a lot of small ones, or one very large ones.

Thanks,

Cluitter

 

[Grimes]

1. Not sure, never used it in a MP mission. It is one of those things where crashes were more common, but a specific crash was never identified. Its possible that the issue has been inadvertently addressed. 

2. Primary use cases are for training missions where you respawn dead units in the same location so that the dead wreck isn't clipping into the live unit. Cleanup of airfields in general to get rid of debris that may cause issues taxiing around. If someone decides to bomb a friendly airfield you can effectively undo the damage of the craters. 

3. I suppose it depends. Larger search area means more time to process it and possibly more objects to cleanup. I haven't actually tested the limits of it that much so I have no idea if it scales as poorly as world.searchObjects does in certain circumstances. I know those that have used it typically just had an area of a few KM and ran the function around airbases for the sake of cleanup. 

[AKA_Clutter]

Thanks Grimes.

The main place I am looking to use it is in Liberation Campaign generated missions.  It looks as though dead units are kept around from mission to mission.  I have no clue if that would degrade server4 performance.

[PravusJSB]

In terms of performance, I'm passing the whole Syria map into the function and the end to end execution time is 0.001, so the performance seems great.