Devil May Cry Project Systems

[Diehard@Azeroth]

I really need advice from you guys in regards to the plausibility of creating a physics engine which will entail wall jumping through interconnected libraries of a jumping system, a jumping spell that initiates the jumping and an attacking spell library, which if initiated after the jumping spell will create a jumping slam animation from Dante. Maybe even adding the ability to use Ivory and Ebony, making Dante increase his height momentarily when he shoots. Devil form will probably not be included as I haven't found a model for it.

The animations are set (although the model creator did not specify all the anims) and the triggers are possible to create. The only thing i am worrying about is will wc3's engine be able to work in a decent performance if the system is efficient? (I am planning to use JASS, as structs are simply compiled JASS) And if so, how many plays would you think it can withstand? (so i can choose the number of players that can play in the game)

I am asking this because i created a third person camera that had an iteration of 0.15 seconds but slowed down the game if 8 players used it (even without calculation of AoA and Z offset). It was quite dissapointing and I really don't want to begin working very hard on this project's systems and animation queing if itll only end up like the last project i worked on.

Thanks for your time

 

[Pharaoh_]

Hey there :]
I don't think such a system would really lag the game; the third person camera is a system that will infinitely run, while this can be prevented. Whenever your unit is about to jump, add it in a global unit group and then run the respective trigger.

 

[Diehard@Azeroth]

yooo man sup

yea problem is most ppl will be jumping around msot of the time, evading dmg etc.. :/

but i also saw the entity engine of hindyhat and it doesnt seem to lag a multiplayer game, so hopefully this can work. thanks for your input man

perhaps a 3v3 or 4v4 would be max i reckon :O

btw send me your bnet acc name so we play together in bnet or something bro :O

 

[Pharaoh_]

4v4 sounds possible and enough :]
It's DeadlyVirginia. I don't log in quite often though.

 

[Diehard@Azeroth]

Btw man you did see the cinematic angles in DMC1 right? Since your a cinematic expert

Maybe devise good angles and help me out with project? maybe even be a partner?

The third person cam in this map entails absolutely no change in AoA etc, just a 2.5 timer iteration to reset values.

so?

 

[dardas]

how about adding a system that picks every 1 that jumps, setting up some variables, and some inputs.. then connecting them? (unit, integer, boolean, and such.)
im not that great at jass tho.

 

[Diehard@Azeroth]

Definitely Dardas, but I need to make it so that events trigger booleans rather than a periodic loop which will be more inefficient, thanks for ya help bro .

 

[Noobsmoke]

can you post the system ? i wanna see it ^^

 

[Diehard@Azeroth]

Yo king_drift_alex, since your a coder maybe you want to join my project? its in the project recruitment section. I finished some amount of the code, not all of it, its hard integrating the attack, wall jump, and jumping to create walljumping, attack jumping and normal jumping, along with colliding with destructables :O The attacking still hasn't been executed but iv set most of the booleans that are needed, code will be hard and your assistance is welcomed tho ^^

 

[Exilus4]

if u want to do dmc4 u must put more time into the project because this is a hard project to do

 

[Diehard@Azeroth]

Definitely, though i am not really going to be able to finish the project without a modeler, terrainer and animator. I also wanted a coding partner because its hard :] Your definitely right, and its really depressing to see that people keep disliking/ignoring my ideas, even an amazing hack-n-slash map, very annoying.. I mean can you believe no one wants to join a hack-n-slash map? seriously? Over overrated RPGs just to be made for their inventory system? Might as well quit mapmaking again..

p.s: I will make this map work, it is definitely possible, it just needs time and effort, ofc can't do this map alone.

 

[dardas]

well..
each unit that jumps is added onto a group/units count..

then when attacking, check if that unit is in the group?
(If unit is back to ground, remove him for the group/count..)
hope i helped..
if you still want me to help you with the project, ill love to..

 

[Diehard@Azeroth]

Thanks alot bro, but no one really wants to join the project, guess its too hard for them.. meh