I'm trying to set up my own basic navmesh setup on the fly, and running off entities as a first attempt.

I found I can create entities as NULL, so as not to render them, but then for debugging I am morphing them to a "dummy.mdl" cube, fading them in, then fading them out. Then I try to morph them back to NULL, but found I can't do it. I guess I can demolish the entity and recreate a NULL, but that seems silly.

Can anyone tell me something I should be doing instead, or a better way to have non-rendered entities (in the 1000's)? Or should I just be using my own struct without running in the engine at all? (lots more custom functions required)

Don
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Hi!

You could have all your entities "invisible" until you need them.
They would be there all the time.

yes, just make unused entities invisible, and you'll save your FPS

Or if you are trying to reduce their memory consumption, morph them
to a mdl file that just contains a single vertex.

heh, i think i had set(my,INVISIBLE) originally. Must have changed it when I had some other bug in there. I'll go back to that.

Thanks,

Don
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