Has anyone messed with dynanic objects much?
I am drawing them to the screen and I see 3 categories, so far
1. when paladins use their mount, there's that ground animation.
2. invisible dynobjs show up from time to time in dalaran (i'm playing wrath classic). sometimes in doorways.
3. smoke flares
The smoke flare behaviour is odd (actually, could be all dynobjs). When i throw one, the dynobj spaws reliably. but then disappeares a few seconds later, and comes back from time to time, but always for just a few seconds.
I'm trying to understand this odd smoke flare behaviour. Some thoughts:
1. I've read that there are (at least) 2 object lists. Active objects and all objects. I'm using active objects (gmvision). Possibly smoke flares come and go to/from the active object list.
2. Perhaps my OM code just sucks. it could be the case that smoke flare dynamic objects should appear in the active object list and stay there until they despawn.
3. something else?
Any hints about this are appreciated. Thanks in advance.