Yurch's antics reach a new level!

[shadowkil]

Yurch, you're not going to let this legendary thread die and just use the new one are you? *gasp*

Back on topic - do you think better ballistics are feasible before U2?

 

[yurch]

I was just discussing ballistics with storm.
I calculated m16 (5.56) rounds to be at 1301mps in inf.
IRL they are ~945mps
And thats muzzle velocity... and theres NO AIR RESISTANCE in Inf!
So yeah, I may be messing with the ToF at least.

 

[shadowkil]

rock on. obviously if you can get the trajectories closer to real, that would be wonderful, but time of flight would be a big step in the right direction.

 

[yurch]

yeah, but if you have correct ToF, it'd be much easier to get gravity workin' right

 

[St0rmcaller]

The only thing is, I think we need to include some kind of break to the velocity, to at least try to simluate some air resistance.

 

[shadowkil]

Is it possible to have slow down a wee bit say every 20 or 30 meters travelled? Or maybe have it just decellerate over time? Hrm. Doing it over time is probably not too efficient in this engine...

 

[RAZZ]

Im not sure I understand how ballistics are done now, but it was interpreted to me as having a strait line with a bent tip.
why not just put more 'bends' in the line?

my figuration (skewed as it may be ) :
we've got no room for lobbing bullets at any kind of high arch.we rarely have shot a target past 300m on the current maps.
so instead of doing heavy bullet fall math for every shot, cant the bullet just follow a preset path with predefined damage levels over range?
would that be any easier on the system?

for zeroing sites, we dont need animations and all that for now.
just some kinda text warning reading off what its set to, and the bullet fired in the proper direction to correlate with that setting (still using the current site picture)
should work for those hard core enough to want it(?)

 

[NotBillMurray]

I haven't looked at the code for this section, but maybe it's as much just a mutator called every tick that returns a:
If Actor==BulletActor
{
Actor.Velocity=Actor.Velocity*.99
Actor.Damage=Actor.Damage*.99
}

Fall rate something similar except altering the height vector or something.

I really need to get in the code again. Bad Monk.

 

[yurch]

tick changes, its not constant from computer to computer

 

[NotBillMurray]

Make it non-simulated (ie server side)?

 

[yurch]

Im playing with my own projectiles at the moment. Just learning stuff, but Im making evil things. I don't think changing the inf projectiles would be too hard, I just need to get hard data on the rounds and get my compiler (!) to accept my damn classes.

 

[yurch]

Heres a version that no longer allows randomdamage to kick in when players are getting jumped on

Its not on the server yet, and I don't think I'm going to put it on tonight.
So heres an advance copy, I guess.

 

[Keganator]

Hey yurch; just to make things more difficult for ya, would you mind linking this to the RAIL forums whenever you post a new version? At least until I get the option for letting you update the files automatically from the RAIL site

 

[perrin98]

Hey Yurch, I've been playing on AFA as always, and I have a comment about stamina. Real military guys do rucksack marches with 60 lbs and go 12 kilometers. Currently, we can barely jog around EP. I personally find this wrong, but if any of AFA would like to comment, i'm open to it. I think jogging should barely drain stamina, if at all.

Just a note.

LP

 

[yurch]

Hip your gun, you will last a whole lot longer.

 

[bastardb]

i jog entire matches on ep (usualy aiming and not hipped) which i hear drains it faster

of course i stop quite a bit...

but who in there right mind would run around during war anyway?
sure you can do it on the track... but you wouldnt do it when theres enemies around every corner

 

[NotBillMurray]

Yeah, I think that was a great addition, Yurch. I didn't take to long to alter my play style, and it feels so much more realistic to not be jogging around constantly aimed. Anything that makes raising and dropping aim actively is good. For a while it was feeling like a wasted function with everyone sprinting/jogging everywhere aimed.

FYI, while hipped you can nearly jog for the length of the average RA EP match.

:tup:

 

[ecale3]

And a average RA EP match takes a very llllllllooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg time. (just for newbie referance)



RA=Real Aim
EP=Extreme Prejudice

 

[ecale3]

Yurch the random damage seems a little, um, wierd. Cause unless i really suck it is not going to take three hits with the PSG to kill someone. I would have to be hitting them in the big toe or something for it to take that many.

 

[NotBillMurray]

Thanks ecale, I forgot to include a universal reference. Ummm, how about saying a best of 32 EP match for the rest of them