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Code center => Suggestions => Topic started by: EricL on November 18, 2007, 04:28:13 PM

Title: .shotspeed
Post by: EricL on November 18, 2007, 04:28:13 PM

Kind of think shot speed should be under the control of the bot.  I'm all set up in the code to do this.  Would probably make the cost polynomial like .shootval.

Thoughts?

Title: .shotspeed
Post by: Numsgil on November 19, 2007, 01:35:55 AM

Your doing swept-volume tests, right?  It shouldn't be a problem as long as you can make sure that shots moving fast won't pass through a shape or bot.

Title: .shotspeed
Post by: Testlund on November 19, 2007, 03:28:22 AM

Quote from: EricL

Kind of think shot speed should be under the control of the bot.  I'm all set up in the code to do this.  Would probably make the cost polynomial like .shootval.

Thoughts?

Could you make shots released from corpses just drift randomly instead of a straight line, moving with the same speed set for shapes? ..IF it doesn't affect performance a lot.

Title: .shotspeed
Post by: EricL on November 19, 2007, 10:50:56 AM

Quote from: Numsgil

Your doing swept-volume tests, right?  It shouldn't be a problem as long as you can make sure that shots moving fast won't pass through a shape or bot.

Yes, exactly.  The current algorithm is all set for very fast shots, even laser beams if we want.  It already has the code for figuring out which hit to use when a shot passes through multiple objects in a single cycle.

Quote from: Testlund

Could you make shots released from corpses just drift randomly instead of a straight line, moving with the same speed set for shapes? ..IF it doesn't affect performance a lot.

I can make shtos from corpses do anything we want them to do.