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Sep 12, 2002, 9:10pm

Wishing there was a way to put a update= on a mp3 file and it would update
like a jpg file would.
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Sep 13, 2002, 6:57pm

I agree,

Would be better if it acepts,

..mpg, .avi, .mp4

Something like that for video aswell.

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Sep 13, 2002, 10:29pm

Sorry, but, nothing new will be added to 3.4 that hasn't already been
planned.

-Joe

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Nov 23, 2002, 1:03am

The down side to this is that as it stands almost nobody uses the update parameter of the picture command correctly. Look around, and you'll find a lot of picture commands that cause the image to be re-downloaded every 5 seconds, or less, even though the image being displayed is usually only updated once every 10 minutes or much less often than that... and some of them are pointing to images that never update at all on the web, so the end result is needless downloading.

I think a better idea might be a special command to cause files to be pre-downloaded or re-downloaded on demand.

For example...

create predownload rag2 type=sound; activate sound rag2.mid

or

create texture faceimg; activate redownload faceimg type=texture

TechnoZeus


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Nov 23, 2002, 1:53am

actually, with pictures that have the update command, the image only
downloads if the image on the server updates


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Nov 23, 2002, 2:29am

That may be, if the code has been fixed since I last checked... but even then there would still be frequent unnecessary web accesses checking to see if the file has updated yet, which can make a big difference in performance if there are several of them in the same area. My point is that while it would be nice to have a way to update files in the cache as needed, it is also important to consider how such capabilities are likely to be used (or misused) and what effect it may have on overal performance.

TechnoZeus

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Nov 23, 2002, 3:20pm

That is true


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