Difference between revisions of "Talk:PlaceAtMe"

So this is still a little confusing. Is this saying PlaceAtMe items never get removed from a save game ever? This would probably mean that the regular spawn operations did something different to PlaceAtMe (which I doubt) or otherwise the game wouldn't ever delete anything. DeleteFullActorCopy neither deletes the reference or the created base object? (I dont think so.) What about PlaceAtMe statics vs. item/creatures, etc? (I think it more likely that statics never get deleted, e.g. most doors, containers, etc. in the game are never marked as persistant but they always are.) Also, this whole confusion over references vs. the objects themselves: a reference (variable) is just an pointer. It doesn't know whether the object associated with it exists or not. Hence trying to use it on an object that is lost or currently not loaded will either do nothing or cause a CTD. Additionally, SetDestroyed has nothing to do with object persistance. [[User:Guidobot|Guidobot]] 13:58, 12 April 2007 (EDT)

So this is still a little confusing. Is this saying PlaceAtMe items never get removed from a save game ever? This would probably mean that the regular spawn operations did something different to PlaceAtMe (which I doubt) or otherwise the game wouldn't ever delete anything. DeleteFullActorCopy neither deletes the reference or the created base object? (I dont think so.) What about PlaceAtMe statics vs. item/creatures, etc? (I think it more likely that statics never get deleted, e.g. most doors, containers, etc. in the game are never marked as persistant but they always are.) Also, this whole confusion over references vs. the objects themselves: a reference (variable) is just an pointer. It doesn't know whether the object associated with it exists or not. Hence trying to use it on an object that is lost or currently not loaded will either do nothing or cause a CTD. Additionally, SetDestroyed has nothing to do with object persistance. [[User:Guidobot|Guidobot]] 13:58, 12 April 2007 (EDT)