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Let's say that I have this in my lua. And I don't want to read it anymore because it's taking up too much memory. Is there any way to do this?

Based on this list of Lua callbacks, probably not.

Why *exactly* do you need to un-load the LVL file? What all does it contain?

It contains a map. All the objects and stuff. I can't read another one because then the game runs out of memory, so I have to stop reading the first one.

Okay, so I'm thinking that I might be able to use ScriptCB_DoFile to load it, but I don't think that I'll be able to un-load it.

I see. Why exactly do you need to load more than one map in the same mission? There might be an easier way of doing what you might be trying to do.

Of course there's an easier way. I want to load the maps as people complete objectives. However, I need to keep the scores they have achieved from each world.

Hmm. Have you ever heard of/played Jaspo's One-Map Mappack? If the maps are modular (heck, I don't think they'd even have to be modular, seeing as how you could just use different terrain textures in the different "map" areas), you could try implementing similar concepts.

Yeah, I've played that and thought about using a similar method. I'll probably end up doing that. I'm just too lazy to make a map but I guess I'll have to now.

What I'm going for will probably work better with a custom map anyways.

Just to clarify, there is no "stopping" reading a data file. It reads it once and puts it in memory. It doesn't constantly stream it, nor is there a way to remove it from memory once its been loaded (aside from quitting to the menu or loading the next map).

Sorry if that bursts your bubble.

It doesn't quite burst my bubble, but it brings up another question. Is there a way to load a map, have the player do stuff there, and then load another map through the same lua? The reason why I'm saying the same lua is so that if x=1 it will stay 1 in the next map.

What you'll want to do is create a custom Galactic Conquest like Maveritchell's The Dark Times. By its nature it can save data from the LUA you can carry over things from one map to the next.

Oh, dang. Okay. I'll look into that. Thanks!

Noobasaurus wrote:I want to load the maps as people complete objectives. However, I need to keep the scores they have achieved from each world.

Did you take a look at this: viewtopic.php?f=64&t=17867&p=309098#p309098 ?

No I did not. That does look really interesting, and I would experiment with it if the source code link wasn't broken. Thanks.

And I also did look into a custom GC and it's a little bit over the top for what I'm trying to do. So now it's all in one map.

Here's a backup link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4vzhd0jj5rja9 ... tils_v1.7z