Anybody have any ideas on how to generate a UniqueKey ( an Integer ) that can support up to 100,000 unique entries?
I'm kinda stumped on this one, I've investigated using Time as a key gen, but multiple entries can be created at once, thus it is not unique.
Can you tell why you need that? There might be alternatives.
I have a large list of Entities, and I need to be able to access them in a table quickly, if I have a unique ID i can do that quickly.
However I need to be able to add and remove them efficiently, because the props will be added and removed, and If i have to loop through a table 100,000 ( This obviously is worse case scenario ) every time I add and remove a prop its gonna be a bad time.
Entity:EntIndex()?
Entity:GetCreationID()?
[QUOTE=Noobulater;41174949]I have a large list of Entities, and I need to be able to access them in a table quickly, if I have a unique ID i can do that quickly.
However I need to be able to add and remove them efficiently, because the props will be added and removed, and If i have to loop through a table 100,000 ( This obviously is worse case scenario ) every time I add and remove a prop its gonna be a bad time.[/QUOTE]
You could use the entity as a key and the unique ID as the value.
[QUOTE=Chessnut;41177215]You could use the entity as a key and the unique ID as the value.[/QUOTE]
Actually, any value would do.
[lua]
-- Creates an empty table
Entities = {}
-- Adds an entity to the table
Entities[ent] = true
-- Removes an entity from the table
Entities[ent] = nil
-- Check if the table contains a given entity
if Entities[ent] then
print("ok")
end
-- Loop through all entities in the table
for ent, _ in pairs(Entities) do
print(ent)
end
[/lua]
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