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Author Topic: One for the Devs: "Au Naturel" Phase Skimmer behaviour  (Read 2391 times)

AxleMC131

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One for the Devs: "Au Naturel" Phase Skimmer behaviour
« on: April 06, 2018, 08:52:38 PM »

Steps:
- Give the Phase Skimmer ship system an arbitrarily large number of charges
- Spawn a Wolf into the simulator
- Spawn one of Tartiflette's lovely practice targets in front of it
- Target the target
- Hold F

Result:

https://youtu.be/5MGsB33qCSI

So, I've got to ask. Is this intentional? And if so, why? Any further details the Devs want to share about why and how the Phase Skimmer works the way it does?  ;D
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Re: One for the Devs: "Au Naturel" Phase Skimmer behaviour
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2018, 09:18:16 PM »

The vagaries of how it finds a "safe" location to skim to when the location it would end up in is occupied by a solid object :)
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Re: One for the Devs: "Au Naturel" Phase Skimmer behaviour
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2018, 09:27:17 PM »

Random idea: Should it abort the skim (charge not spent) if the obstruction is such that distance to the selected destination ends up being < X units?
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Re: One for the Devs: "Au Naturel" Phase Skimmer behaviour
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2018, 09:30:00 PM »

Honestly, this seems hardly worth messing with. This specific behavior is contingent on relative object sizes and the ship's velocity being extremely low. The odds of it coming up in an actual in-game situation are... well, not 0, but pretty close.
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Re: One for the Devs: "Au Naturel" Phase Skimmer behaviour
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2018, 09:16:24 AM »

The behavior of the algo at 90 degrees is interesting.  That might be worth a look-see.
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Re: One for the Devs: "Au Naturel" Phase Skimmer behaviour
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2018, 09:40:59 AM »

The behavior of the algo at 90 degrees is interesting.  That might be worth a look-see.
Back in wc3 i think that was either 0 or 180 degrees. It varies by engine. Depends how you build your coordinate system.

Either way it is a strange attracter like situation.
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