[WIP] ^1the gunz mechanic codex [THIS MAKES ME LOOK LIKE A HUGE FUCKING LOSER]

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my gunz magnum opus.........

Lower FPS = quicker animations, Higher FPS = longer animations.

Lower FPS = Less gravity, Higher FPS = more gravity

Animation's work in a parallel fashion to a set "timed" animation, that's to say, the actual animation is locked into at LEAST a certain length by an unknown entity:

At lower FPSes you can see artifacts of this by slashing a wall, you will have a momentary freeze afterwards. This is the underlying timer. Animation freezes are achieved by having multiple of of the SAME "quicker" animations in a row, so that you obtain that "freeze-frame" at the end of every animation you do, with no interruptions in between. For some reason when these freeze-frames translate to another client, it produces a static image of the final frame in the animation for the ENTIRETY of the next super-fast animation, but not for the player's client. When animations are close to their timers, they come out smoother and are easier to control.

Recoils are based on FPS as well. The way recoils work, is when the slash animation hits a block it's on a timer that's related to the slash animation "timer", if a percentage of the animation's "timer" hits the block animation, you will recoil. Angling defeats recoils because of this. You're throwing the extra slash animation "timer's" "frames" off into the wild. Thus...

If you have 17 FPS, and the "timer" requires 50% of frames, only 9 frames must hit this timer. This doesn't seem bad, but when you're at 17 fps your frames are so clunky that you are only able to move in about 65% of them.

If, on the other hand, you have 500 FPS, you need 250 frames to hit the block. With a smooth angle, this is very easy to avoid.


This was proven by people like Tandy, who used ~3,000 FPS and was nearly unrecoilable with just slight angles. Extensive tests were done using Tandy in controlled environments to prove this.


So, why is 250 FPS the optimal FPS? That is because you are getting...

1. Enough gravity to do things
2. 250 FPS is about the point where animations + their "timers" are equal, thus are less clunky.


Regarding




The way this works, I think is related to God Theory...




that is to say, when an animation starts at the ending frame of another animation (only certain ones) they cancel each other out. Like the massive in my video cancelling the landing AND the massive itself, in this case, the slash is cancelling the landing animation.

While you're in a flip, you're in the air. The game is saying "I am in the air", for lack of a better term. When you hit the ground and cancel it with a slash (the flip-landing animation is different than the jump-landing) you cancel both the first slash, and the landing. So, the game still thinks you're in the air (because you didn't land,) but reads you're on the ground (because you are at the ground-level where the land should be.) You are in a superposition between ground and air (but still considered in air,) and both safefall (the backflip/void massive charge) and do the first slash animation. Getting flipped keeps you in the same lock, landing on the ground cancels and gives you another landing animation.

I believe slashing keeps you in the air because the game thinks you're on the ground because you're using the ground-slashing animation, in the game when you do a ground-slashing animation you get less gravity (you can do this yourself by slashing off a ledge, you won't drop right away) thus you're doing the animation, and getting no gravity. Slashes in a frozen "falling" position, because of the length of how long you're in the air (happens if you're flipped off a long ledge) makes you slashes spammable.

GUNZ !! !!! !

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[D]ark[YIN] wrote:
Too much philosophy. Go on ragezone and find the source code. Also, do some coursera courses on programming and you'll get better results than toying with Fraps.

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Jianyu wrote:well teemo isn't bad in the bot-lane, a few south-east asian players like Chawy have used him...

let's see how..

dorans shield + 1 pot ->

haunting guise->mpen boots->twin shadows->liandrys->z-ring->liches bane->void (void can be built b4 or right after z-ring, and liches bane can be built b4 z-ring)


u r probably ask, that is look the so weird !!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????


::::PROTIP ALERT::::


Did you know Liandry's passive procs DOUBLE if the target is immobilized? Twin Shadows has a slow built into the active!!!!!!!


WOW!!! COOL!!!

[D]ark[YIN] wrote:
Too much philosophy. Go on ragezone and find the source code. Also, do some coursera courses on programming and you'll get better results than toying with Fraps.

Naravus did look at gunz sources, i.e. blocks were found to work that way. the only "philosophical" (quotes because they're all confirmed) thing is god-theory, jet-theory and "vengence", because like k-style they're bugs and can only be tested in a live environment. fraps is just used like a classroom experiment, where you can see these things for yourself because the game is largely based on animations with no "timed" animation lock (to keep the animations at a certain number of frames,) so fps plays a big part.

learning is fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



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WRUM! wrote:

I think the animation locks (vblock, void slash, etc) are due to GunZ replaying the last frame of the animation, if the same animation is played over and over again [1][2]. This happens with animations like jumping, falling, and a falling massive naturally [3].

The way this factors into vblock is that block has different animations for its raising and holding. When you press the block button, the raising animation is first played, and afterwards, the block hold animation starts looping until the block timer runs out and you return to the normal idle upper [4] animation. Here's the catch though, the animation id for the upper body idle animation is only set after the sword has fully returned to your side. What this means is that the very last frame of the block raising animation pretty much looks like the beginning of the upper body idle animation.

By spamming the block raising animation and not staying in the idle animation for more than a few frames, the PostBasicInfo cycle can't send the idle animation to other clients, [5] because the timer for sending this information is a lot longer than your stay in the idle animation.

What all of this results in is that all other players only receive the block raising upper animation, which in turn, just makes their client play the last frame of it, which just happens to look like the beginning of the idle animation.

I could be wrong though. It's been some time since I've last messed with the client.


Notes:
[1] By which I mean to say that the animation id remains unchanged after the animation has reached the last frame.

[2] Unless the animations are marked as looped (running, block hold, and idle animations). Then all bets are off.

[3] You can achieve the same effect with slashing, wallclimbing, dashing, etc. if you run an animation switcher to lock yourself into a certain animation like me and ent did on RGunZ.

[4] For anybody that didn't know already, animations are divided between upper and lower body. This is what makes it possible to have a lower body running animation with a reloading/grenade throwing animation at the same time.

[5] PostBasicInfo sends information to other players in the game about your position, rotation, current animation, current weapon (and some other uninteresting stuff I've forgotten about). It sends this information on a set timer, or when you've traveled a certain distance from your last position. Messing with this function is how ABBY bot's invisibility and spinning worked.

if(DotProduct(dir,m_Direction)>.5f && fDist<200.f) {

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Jianyu wrote:I just wish I knew what the fuck the "f" unit was, since it's for time AND distance AND speed.