MTA:Eir/functions/engineStreamingIsElementManaged

This function returns whether the given element is managed by the Streaming garbage collector. If an entity is managed, its RenderWare data can be deallocated once the engine is lacking available streaming memory (an option found in your game settings under the Video tab).

Syntax

bool engineStreamingIsElementManaged ( element entity )

Arguments

• entity: an entity that is streamed in and has a visible game representation

Returns

Returns true if the given entity is being managed by the engine Streaming GC system. Returns false if the entity type is not being managed at all, entity does not have a visible game representation or entity is not passed as valid parameter.

Example

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Client

This snippet returns every object that is managed by the Streaming GC system.

function getStreamingManagedObjects()
    local objects = getElementsByType( "object" );
    local managedObjects = {};
    local num = 1;

    for m,n in ipairs( objects ) do
        if ( engineStreamingIsElementManaged( n ) ) then
            managedObjects[num] = n;

            num = num + 1;
        end
    end

    return managedObjects, num;
end