Preliminary Physics Tweaks Posted

[GreenHeart]

And I told you that it won't crash with low values, and besides taht, it was jsut a suggestion seeing how you said you were having trouble removing the bounciness, so I told you what I have done in testing.

Change.log

"- TrackedVehicleClass::SPRING_FACTOR and TrackedVehicleClass::DAMPING_FACTOR
now have minimum values of 0.01 . Negative values caused problems
immediately. Most "don't do that, then" things will probably be left in,
as an encouragement to modders to not push things too far. [NM]

[Spawn]

The ground ellasticity has been throughly tested at negative values, -0.5 is ok, going too negative (AKA -5) caused some problems, but nothing remotely like it appeared at lower values.

[appel]

I've tested the new scout, and here are my points:

- Forward speed seems to feel just about right now.
- Reverse speed is still a tiny bit faster than in 1.2, decrease it by like 5% I think.
- The ground still bounces back to you. If you fall straight down from some height then the scout will bounce like a ball (although no bouncing sound can be heard). In 1.2 you just land straight.
- You need to be able to control yourself while flying, *hover* if I must say, for a limited time to control your flying, such as reversing or going to the sides. I'm not talking about static hovering, but rather being able to thrust yourself in the air, rather than falling down like a rock without being able to control your descent. This is I think the most crucial part that the scout needs to be able to do.


If this ^ can be implemented then I think we have a very good scout ready to test.

[APCs r evil]

- You need to be able to control yourself while flying, *hover* if I must say, for a limited time to control your flying, such as reversing or going to the sides. I'm not talking about static hovering, but rather being able to thrust yourself in the air, rather than falling down like a rock without being able to control your descent. This is I think the most crucial part that the scout needs to be able to do.

I don't think we can do anything about that. I believe the reverse and possibly strafe keys are deactivated whenever you go high enough to hear the wind, or as I prefer to call it, that godawful sound that is annoying as hell.

[Spawn]

Control in the air is limited because it was how hovering was removed, this existed in 1.2, but the dropoff wasn't anywhere nearly as extreme and then allowed hovering to happen.  Could use the neg hover altitude trick, but that would fail.  Not sure if he reduced jump like the others though, but thats never been too great.

[PhoeniX-FlamE]

...you called? 

[BZZERKER]

'bout time you showed up you slacker.

[PhoeniX-FlamE]

ehm lets just say I had(/ve) my hands full 

[ScarleTomato]

that godawful sound that is annoying as hell.

I hear ya. It's waay too loud. HyperSFX, Very Cool

[General BlackDragon]

whats the newest version? and i think one of ur cfg files made my 1.3 AV ...i dunno ill figure out what does it later

[Red Devil]

 I'll post something in a few days.  BZZ told me to slow down, so I am.  Playing BF2 with the new 1.21 patch in the meantime.

[seanthegreat]

I'll post something in a few days.  BZZ told me to slow down, so I am.  Playing BF2 with the new 1.21 patch in the meantime.

god never heard any one making 21 patches just for 1 patch  game must be buggy

[General BlackDragon]

people name patches wierd things, often skipping dozens of numbers...

[lucky_foot]

LOL. Yep. Sometimes it confused me. (but hey, that isn't hard to do. )

[Red Devil]

It's not incremental.  Numbers are assigned according to amount of code modified.  Major changes get whole numbers increased, moderate ones increase by tenths, minor ones by hundredths.  There's been about 4-5 patches for BF2 so far.