maximum number of effects in a spell?

[subtledoctor]

Is anyone aware of a maximum number of effects that a .SPL file can process in an extended header?  My test install has >2,000 effects (opcode 177) in a spell applied at level 1... I haven't tested it yet, I'm just curious if people here have discussed this or have any knowledge of it already.

[subtledoctor]

Okay, I reduced it to about 1300 effects... and it seems to work fine. I guess the functional limit is pretty high...

[Bubb]

If you're looking for a hard cap, spell abilities store the number of effects present as a word - so technically a spell can have 65,535 effects in a single ability without crashing. Game will probably lag out hard if you cast a spell with that many effects though.

[subtledoctor]

I dunno... it doesn’t seem to skip a beat when 1300 effects are processed at CharGen...

[Jarno Mikkola]

That's one creature... try to summon creatures (ij#summ) already afflicted with the spell with this script part added on top of say, to ar0602.bcs

IF
		Global("customglobal","GLOBAL",0)
THEN
	RESPONSE #100
		CreateCreature("ij#summ",[3000.650],1)  // custom creature
END

... and let it run a few moments, as you can disable it with SetGlobal(balh balh) -console command and then see if the game skips a moment or a few dozen ... hours, when you screen is full of them.