How does instancing work in houses?

allochthons · July 5

How does instancing work in houses? For instance, if you're in a house with an inside and an outside, are those two areas the same instance?

I'm setting up a guild hall, but want to put the parse dummy where there is the least amount of lag/ping/animations etc. Does the game engine or console/PC worry about, say, the animated furnishing, or NPC guest pathing, on the beach in Bismuth Steam Baths when you're inside the house?

Thanks.

LunaFlora · July 5

Same instance, the interior of buildings is usually underneath the ground, in Housing and in Overland.

To see this in housing you can,
- put a Special Collectible on a path in the outside area
- go inside a housing building
- retrieve the most nearby path node of that Collectible
- put that path node into the building
- confirm the path
- the new path should be coming from above.

it would probably help to put a Target Dummy in an empty flat area without furnishings that have animations and effects, i do not know the answers to those questions though.
i know furnishings like the Nebula from Sovngarde Crates have made my game lag.

freespirit · July 5

Afaik all houses are counted as one instance,

I've never had any issues with Parse Dummies, as long as they are placed on actual ground that exists within the home.

Placing them on platforms, floors etc that you have added does cause issues though, spells that are ground based or AOE seem to have problems with dummies placed on added floors etc.

allochthons · July 6

LunaFlora wrote: »

Same instance, the interior of buildings is usually underneath the ground, in Housing and in Overland.

To see this in housing you can,
- put a Special Collectible on a path in the outside area
- go inside a housing building
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This is brilliant, @LunaFlora. Thanks!
I thought maybe since you can't group things together and move them into the house, they might be separate. Okay, for now, I'll keep my parse dummies where they are, in a pretty empty small house.

@freespirit I knew the platform issue, but that's such a weird thing, I'm glad you reminded me.

Thank you both. I'm not in a housing guild, or really know anyone hard into housing, so didn't know who to ask.

[edited to remove the f bom word from Battlestar Galactica. Does it trigger editing, here? LOL]

M_Volsung · July 6

When I turn on a music box inside my house and step outside, I can still hear the music box faintly playing...

So, same instance and not too far away.