[vJASS] A realistic viewing system

[Tal'Rarity]

[cJass,vJass] Realistic View System Does anyone know of a better view per unit system then this one? Also with no documentation on how to use this, could I get some clues/help?

 

[Dr Super Good]

I am not too sure what a "relaistic view system" is. Reading the comments it seems to be that it tries to make units cast a vision cone in front of them rather than a circle in all directions? Similar to used in some survival and stealth games?

The system seems to use CJASS, which I am not even sure what that is...

It seems to work by hiding and showing units based on its own, poll driven, vision logic. This would probably be fine for stealth game sort of gameplay but may have issues if used for anything more complex that expects multiple units, non-cooperative multiplayer support or units to be carrying out actions while not visible by the player.

 

[Pyrogasm]

The system seems to use CJASS, which I am not even sure what that is...

Cohadar's offshoot JASS extension from like 2012.

 

[Tal'Rarity]

I am not too sure what a "relaistic view system" is. Reading the comments it seems to be that it tries to make units cast a vision cone in front of them rather than a circle in all directions? Similar to used in some survival and stealth games?

The system seems to use CJASS, which I am not even sure what that is...

It seems to work by hiding and showing units based on its own, poll driven, vision logic. This would probably be fine for stealth game sort of gameplay but may have issues if used for anything more complex that expects multiple units, non-cooperative multiplayer support or units to be carrying out actions while not visible by the player.

What if the units are moved locally and player vision isn't shared?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Moving units locally will likely cause an instant desync.

 

[Tal'Rarity]

Moving units locally will likely cause an instant desync.

Except it was done for an inventory system,

Seeing how trigger managed to do selections for locally moved units means they have no pathing but don't have locust either so they can stay selectable... I wonder if player vision is local or not, any projectile system would have an issue with triggerhappy's system I suspect but if the dummies instead were locust'd and only gave vision... Not sure how player vision works, guessed it might be local since one can mh and not d/c.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Vision is likely a global state. This is because units need to see other units to be able to attack them. I am fairly certain a unit attacking another unit locally, such as due to different vision, would cause a desync at some stage.