Higher FPS on Era

[xDarkTAx]

Is it possible to increase the FPS on Era?Would it work out without a ton of changes? In this age 30-60 fps is easily obtainable by all modern computers and the increased FPS would greatly increase the game while making it less "choppy".

[Tim_Rocks]

Would have to get unixmad involved (where ever he is). That being said, would it really make a big difference on a 2D game? I'm not really sure, but I do know it couldn't hurt.

[Crow]

Originally Posted by Tim_Rocks

That being said, would it really make a big difference on a 2D game?

Yes.

[Demisis_P2P]

Originally Posted by Tim_Rocks

Would have to get unixmad involved (where ever he is). That being said, would it really make a big difference on a 2D game? I'm not really sure, but I do know it couldn't hurt.

I don't care about it for the sake of making the game feel less "choppy", but scripts only update once per frame, which is why everything has to be in multiples of 0.05.
If we had 60 FPS we could get a lot more weapon diversity on Era.

And we could make projectiles faster as well, because the current limitation for the projectile speed is the onwall check each frame.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Demisis_P2P

And we could make projectiles faster as well, because the current limitation for the projectile speed is the onwall check each frame.

I don't think the collision check is the real issue. At one point I recreated the default projectiles (and spent a lot of time getting the collision detection to be identical) -- they ended up being basically functionally equivalent, but with lots of other options (variable speed, etc.). We had planned on switching to them, but didn't mainly because it was a lot of work. It's a shame because it could have added many more options for guns.

The default projectiles don't even allow you to slow down bullets, let alone make them faster.

[Tim_Rocks]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

I don't think the collision check is the real issue. At one point I recreated the default projectiles (and spent a lot of time getting the collision detection to be identical) -- they ended up being basically functionally equivalent, but with lots of other options (variable speed, etc.). We had planned on switching to them, but didn't mainly because it was a lot of work. It's a shame because it could have added many more options for guns.

The default projectiles don't even allow you to slow down bullets, let alone make them faster.

Are there still examples on the server?

Originally Posted by Demisis_P2P

I don't care about it for the sake of making the game feel less "choppy", but scripts only update once per frame, which is why everything has to be in multiples of 0.05.
If we had 60 FPS we could get a lot more weapon diversity on Era.

And we could make projectiles faster as well, because the current limitation for the projectile speed is the onwall check each frame.

Just wanna be clear, I 100% agree that it should be done. I just really don't think it's going to happen.

[Demisis_P2P]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

I don't think the collision check is the real issue. At one point I recreated the default projectiles (and spent a lot of time getting the collision detection to be identical) -- they ended up being basically functionally equivalent, but with lots of other options (variable speed, etc.). We had planned on switching to them, but didn't mainly because it was a lot of work. It's a shame because it could have added many more options for guns.

The default projectiles don't even allow you to slow down bullets, let alone make them faster.

That actually sounds really cool.

Not sure how much things have changed since the first time Snakeandy and I tried to increase the speed of them, because even at 1.5 tiles per frame there was almost a 50/50 chance that the projectile would clip a wall 2 tiles thick. Can't remember now if he ever changed the actual collision check because I think it was only ever checking the tile infront of the projectile, whereas at that speed you'd need to include a tile infront of that and the current tile.
But I remember he just gave up and made that Gun/Bonus Feature instead, which let you increase the clip size of a gun.

[xDarkTAx]

I don't think the game being 2d makes a higher FPS any less important. All I know is that I can literally see the how choppy the game is when I play compared to even 30fps games. I play games at 144fps on my 144hz monitor and it's just worlds of difference from 30/60. I never understood fully why the game was capped at 20fps.

[Kohola_KinG]

Originally Posted by xDarkTAx

I don't think the game being 2d makes a higher FPS any less important. All I know is that I can literally see the how choppy the game is when I play compared to even 30fps games. I play games at 144fps on my 144hz monitor and it's just worlds of difference from 30/60. I never understood fully why the game was capped at 20fps.

If i am not mistaken it's capped at 21.

[Crow]

Originally Posted by Kohola_KinG

If i am not mistaken it's capped at 21.

It's 20.

[Kohola_KinG]

Originally Posted by Crow

It's 20.

I have had 21 FPS a lot of times and Wil gets 21 FPS constant that's why he's always that sec faster than everyone else.

[Crow]

Originally Posted by Kohola_KinG

I have had 21 FPS a lot of times and Wil gets 21 FPS constant that's why he's always that sec faster than everyone else.

You're not a very smart man.

[Tim_Rocks]

I think its worth doing, but I don't think it will actually happen.

[Eclipse]

oooo this guy ^ hello sir

[WillaWonka]

Sounds like a Era 2 kind of change, because that's digging in deep when it comes to updating the game. Many things will have to change, aside from the weapons, images and many gfx updates as well since the frames will be smoother, thus more images to compensate, id think.