The Fake Console and ReadDataFile: how much can you load?

commanderawesome · Post by **commanderawesome** » Thu Mar 31, 2016 2:23 pm

I'm trying to find out how much (of anything) you can load at once with a single command in-game.

Typing this:

ReadDataFile("SIDE\\rep.lvl",
                             "rep_inf_ep2_rifleman",
                             "rep_inf_ep2_rocketeer",
                             "rep_inf_ep2_engineer",
                             "rep_inf_ep2_sniper",
                             "rep_inf_ep3_officer",
                             "rep_inf_ep2_jettrooper",
                             "rep_hover_fightertank",
                             "rep_hero_macewindu")

into the code console - on a map with one class per team and nothing else - crashes the game with this error:

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Message Severity: 3
C:\Battlefront2\main\RedEngineFL\Memory\RedMemory.cpp(561)
attempted to allocate from invalid heap -1

Message Severity: 3
C:\Battlefront2\main\RedEngineFL\Memory\RedMemory.cpp(538)
Allocating 50444 bytes failed - no free blocks left in Heap -1 ()

So what's the limit?

DylanRocket · Post by **DylanRocket** » Thu Mar 31, 2016 2:49 pm

I don't believe you can load new units through Fake Console. You can load new textures and models however.

AnthonyBF2 · Post by **AnthonyBF2** » Thu Mar 31, 2016 3:04 pm

I failed to load models from fake console as well. I wanted to make map model/texture reskins in fake console and it crashes with models. Textures only it seems to work.

commanderawesome · Post by **commanderawesome** » Thu Mar 31, 2016 3:14 pm

I've loaded models and units before. The former is how some Skin Changer commands work. But there appears to be an "upper limit" as to how many units I can load at a time, which is what i'm trying to find.

Post by **[RDH]Zerted** » Sun May 08, 2016 12:21 am

Have you guys tried using ReadDataFileInGame() instead of ReadDataFile()? I was never able to determine the difference between those two functions.

commanderawesome · Post by **commanderawesome** » Sun May 08, 2016 12:27 am

[RDH]Zerted wrote:Have you guys tried using ReadDataFileInGame() instead of ReadDataFile()? I was never able to determine the difference between those two functions.

No, i've always thought it was redundant since the latter works in-game, but perhaps the former works better. I'll let you know.

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