orappa Posted April 17, 2006 Posted April 17, 2006 I went away on Tuesday visiting someone in my family with cancer , and came back today. Before I went away, I wrote a spectator system for Deathmatch that seems to work pretty well. Changing spectated player works like in Race, using Left and Right arrow. Also, Kent and I worked on some lag compensation code for shooting which also seems to work. Kent told me he was able to hit Oli running perpendicular to him with a Rifle with a decent ping, and aiming AT him (not infront of him). Shooting might still need some tweaks to work optimally but we're really happy with how it looks, and hell it's accurate. Ping compensation for shooting basically means you can hit moving players pretty accurately by aiming at them rather than trying to predict their future path to hit them. Walking and running is also very smooth. As far as I can tell, it's very close to Singleplayer smooth, also when running. Vehicle smoothness is also improved significantly from Race 1.1.1. Have a nice day!
paul527 Posted April 17, 2006 Posted April 17, 2006 thanks Jon, sounds good to able to just shoot at someone, rather than air... >MTA ARE THE GOOD< >ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO MTA< >MAKE YOUR TIME!<
DominionSpy Posted April 17, 2006 Posted April 17, 2006 As far as I can tell, it's very close to Singleplayer smooth, also when running. Vehicle smoothness is also improved significantly from Race 1.1.1. Yes, I was very impressed with the difference in smoothness from race to the current alpha dm. Whereas in race other people's cars always seem to go off at weird angles and then snap back, in dm even on a server running from a home computer that only happens rarely.
CoZ Posted April 17, 2006 Posted April 17, 2006 speaking of spectator mode .. id like it very badly in race .. *ah ... well ... back to being patient* oh .. question .. will it still be possible to make maps and races for deathmatch ? right ?
Si|ent Posted April 17, 2006 Posted April 17, 2006 Have you managed to avoid or prevent the stand-off situation with gun fights that we had in Vice City once we perfected the aim? (For those who don't know, this was where both players saw the 'Just took a hit' animation on each other. This meant the shooting animation and therefore the bullets didn't show meaning neither player took any hits themselves until a blip in the packets sent meant one broke out of it, his gun was seen to fire and the bullets would finally hit and kill the other.)
[TTH]Mr.X Posted April 17, 2006 Posted April 17, 2006 and maybe taking out the shotgun nockdown because it's verry annoying to get timed when the first hit was just a lucky shot
Oli Posted April 17, 2006 Posted April 17, 2006 Have you managed to avoid or prevent the stand-off situation with gun fights that we had in Vice City once we perfected the aim? (For those who don't know, this was where both players saw the 'Just took a hit' animation on each other. This meant the shooting animation and therefore the bullets didn't show meaning neither player took any hits themselves until a blip in the packets sent meant one broke out of it, his gun was seen to fire and the bullets would finally hit and kill the other.) Ive not seen this yet but i will have a proper look later
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