LE 3 : Free Maps?

[SpiderPig]

Can you free / release a loaded map?

[YouGroove]

What you mean ?

I can create a map in LE3 and release or distribute it as tutorial or game demo i think ?

[SpiderPig]

I mean I can load a map with Map:Load () which returns its success as true or false...

But is there a Map:Release () function? Or a way to easily remove the contents of that map from the game?

[YouGroove]

I don't think, you need to make it in the editor i think.

What do you want to remove ?

Perhaps you could just load the scene , and load by code the elements you could want to add than remove later ?

Is it to make some personnal level editor ?

[AggrorJorn]

What SpiderPig means is that the memory containing the loaded level is still there, even if you would load a new level. The release method is normally invoked to remove objects from the memory. However, what we don;t know is whether this also works for loaded maps.

[SpiderPig]

Aggror's correct. I want to load different levels as the game progresses. Currently if I load level 1 then load level 2, both levels are merged....I may have to figure out a different method.....

[Chris Vossen]

So the proper way to do it is a call to World:Clear(), unfortunately we forgot to tag it for lua (and document it). I'm posting a bug report for this right now and hopefully the lua tag (and documentation) will be available with the next build.

[SpiderPig]

Awesome, Thanks!

[SpiderPig]

self.world:Clear() in Lua throws an error....

 

attempt to call method 'Clear' (a nil value)

 

....or is that what you meant by you forgot to tag it for lua?

[Josh]

Our mistake, this got overlooked. Will fix in the next build.