Scratch

Anyway about the lag problem, I still have no ideas about the animation delay stuff, but I have one idea which I don't think will help, but its to get rid of the "attacking" variable and on the sandbag you know it'll sence as long as the costume isn't blah blah blah, etc. you know the rest I know its a bad idea I'm just getting crazy and I know it.

P.S. When on your forum sig it says "Update: Now play as blah blah blah", when archmage is in the game, it should say "UPDATE: Now play as the teenage bearded scratcher, archmage!" lol

Last edited by Lucario621 (2009-01-02 19:32:29)

Zelda123 wrote:

Do you think splitting up some of the big, long scripts will help? It may make it a bigger size but it may run faster in normal mode.

Hmmmmm, you may have something there. I will try splitting up the animation scripts and see what happens.

Zelda123 wrote:

Do you think splitting up some of the big, long scripts will help? It may make it a bigger size but it may run faster in normal mode.

Well theres about 1 script for every character + 4 or 5

archmage wrote:

Zelda123 wrote:

Do you think splitting up some of the big, long scripts will help? It may make it a bigger size but it may run faster in normal mode.

Hmmmmm, you may have something there. I will try splitting up the animation scripts and see what happens.

Hmmmmm, something about this sounds crazy. 18 stances/animation scripts X 8 characters + 5 other scripts =  149 scripts....yeah thats reasonable enough for me =P

Hey I just realized something super-awesomely-amazing! Your not working on Pheonix Wright! Partey yeah! Shake your bootay yeah....

Lucario621 wrote:

Hey I just realized something super-awesomely-amazing! Your not working on Pheonix Wright! Partey yeah! Shake your bootay yeah....

I told my brother that he has to finish Phoenix Wright 2 before I continue to code his game. He hasn't beat it yet.

(after doing that idea and making the game into 30 scripts) Well I tested it, and I can tell its faster, but has more glitches. Apparently, it seems that because it only changes the stance for less than a second and then back to fall or standing quickly, its only the new stance for that amount of time. Should I upload it?

Last edited by Lucario621 (2009-01-02 20:05:55)

Lucario621 wrote:

(after doing that idea and making the game into 30 scripts) Well I tested it, and I can tell its faster, but has more glitches. Apparently, it seems that because it only changes the stance for less than a second and then back to fall or standing quickly, its only the new stance for that amount of time. Should I upload it?

You are getting problems because it it trying to get out of a repeat loop animation.

All that really matters is that it goes faster while playing in the online player. Upload it and see if it runs better online, I can fix all the bugs later.

Lucario621 wrote:

archmage wrote:

Lucario621 wrote:

(after doing that idea and making the game into 30 scripts) Well I tested it, and I can tell its faster, but has more glitches. Apparently, it seems that because it only changes the stance for less than a second and then back to fall or standing quickly, its only the new stance for that amount of time. Should I upload it?

You are getting problems because it it trying to get out of a repeat loop animation.

All that really matters is that it goes faster while playing in the online player. Upload it and see if it runs better online, I can fix all the bugs later.

Well I can't really test it if only a projectile and one punch attack works...though I'll try.

That isn't important. What is important is that it moves without lag in the online player. It should look like it is switching between different costumes strangely but that is ok.

Lucario621 wrote:

archmage wrote:

Lucario621 wrote:

Well I can't really test it if only a projectile and one punch attack works...though I'll try.

That isn't important. What is important is that it moves without lag in the online player. It should look like it is switching between different costumes strangely but that is ok.

I'll try out mine once it finishes uploading, though the odds are it will definately be better because if I can atleast LOAD mine, then it'll be better, because for me, if I goto your ssbb roster thing, it won't load, it practically freezes.

If you can't get past the loading screen then you need to fix your java player.

Look whatever I closed all my stuff, you can easily do it, cuz I can but can't upload sry.

Ok I think I figured out a way to fix the lag issue and make it quite fast, but it will require me to break up my beautiful code in to many man y pieces 

Each character has about 17 stances which include running, standing, attacking, ect.

So right now I have the code set up like this.

When I recieve charselect
forever
if (charselect==1)  //1 is mario by the way
if(stance==1)
//code to stand
}
if (stance==2)
//code to jump
}
//Repeat this 15 more times

What I think is slowing everything down is that scratch has to go through my large pile of if statements to get to the if statement it has to run. So the code it is running shouldn't be the problem but rather the other if blocks it has to test for are causing problems.

I will try to arange the code like this now

when I recieve stancechange  //I'll make to put in some new broadcasts
if (char==1 && spriteActive)  //The sprite active variable says if it is already running an animation
if (stance==1)
//code to stand
}
else{
end script
}
else{
end script
}

EDIT: Please don't bug me about the syntax of this "script"
It is just meant to show the general operation of my scratch scripts.

And I have to do this for every stance of every character which would result in about 17*8 more scripts in the project. (I've already put so much time into this that making those scripts won't even be that big of a deal.)

Now in theory this should work out because now only a very small animation script will be running at a time. I will do tests to see if this works.

Last edited by archmage (2009-01-03 13:36:25)

archmage wrote:

Ok I think I figured out a way to fix the lag issue and make it quite fast, but it will require me to break up my beautiful code in to many man y pieces 

Each character has about 17 stances which include running, standing, attacking, ect.

So right now I have the code set up like this.

When I recieve charselect
forever
if (charselect==1)  //1 is mario by the way
if(stance==1)
//code to stand
}
if (stance==2)
//code to jump
}
//Repeat this 15 more times

What I think is slowing everything down is that scratch has to go through my large pile of if statements to get to the if statement it has to run. So the code it is running shouldn't be the problem but rather the other if blocks it has to test for are causing problems.

I will try to arange the code like this now

when I recieve stancechange  //I'll make to put in some new broadcasts
if (char==1 && spriteActive)  //The sprite active variable says if it is already running an animation
if (stance==1)
//code to stand
}
else{
end script
}
else{
end script
}

And I have to do this for every stance of every character which would result in about 17*8 more scripts in the project. (I've already put so much time into this that making those scripts won't even be that big of a deal.)

Now in theory this should work out because now only a very small animation script will be running at a time. I will do tests to see if this works.

...Yeah you sure don't lie when you say actionscripting is your thing. You use == all the time =P