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Kiske wrote:
Anyway, this is perfect .. If there helps such as: marzojr, Qwerty, DMTM, and others
Welcome it! :)
Okay, I’ll try to proceed further (and to improve my test attempt as well), but not right now. Didn’t sleep tonight, have to take rest at daytime, and next night will probably be able to TAS. You have to keep in mind that I’m already participating in Qwerty’s project, and sometimes I have to give his project some attention as well.
I’d also like to mention that despite being able to improve it, I’m not really good at TASing Sonic, and prefer playing as Amy or Knuckles… But I’ll certainly give it a try :)
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Looks good, but improving it after improving Aglar was a bit… easy :)
Take this if you need some fresh ideas for the very beginning of AIZ1
However, I beleive the improvement could still be advanced. Better brake precision on the spring could be in order, for instance. I leave it to you since it’s not my WIP :)
(upd) I almost forgot that when you exit the special stage, the in-game timer will eat all the improvement… Pity :( maybe I need to sleep more -_-
Anyway, would you welcome my comments / contributions? I won’t demand co-authorship if you want this to be your solo project, just wanna show some possible flaws.
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I’d also like to add that many TASers use version control. Originally it’s meant to be a tool for programmers, but TASing in many ways is really similar to programming: the player is trying to find the algorithm of beating the game as quickly as possible, and writing the input file just like programmers write source code. From attempt to attempt the player is changing his input. This can often result in mistakes, data loss and other issues. VCS greatly helps to solve all of them, as well as it solves the cooperation problem. When you make your TAS together with another player, usually you have to send him your WIPs many times, and receive tons of WIPs back from him. VCS helps to avoid this mess by directing your cooperation in the straight-forward way.
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Piggybacking question. are TASes usually done all in one file? or somehow stitched together with cumulative rerecords added?
Yep you can copy-paste certain parts of the input when you know what you are doing, but it’s completely up to the player to keep the consistent number of rerecords in such case. And most players do not really care about it, because everyone realizes that it’s not an indicator of the quality of the run. For instance, a TAS consuming 1000 rerecords, done by a very skilled player, can still be much better than a run consuming 10000 rerecords done by a newbie.
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Okay, I managed to improve Aglar’s run by 6 frames, Qwerty may be happy :)
I’ll show a preview a bit later, after trying my hand on the other levels/acts.
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I was not going to show equipment, and those photos are not mine (I use other stuff). I just wanted to show what those equipment displayed. :)
С1-93 is made in Soviet Union. It’s not manufactured anymore, but because of high production volumes at that time, it’s still available. Googling gives you some more detailed photos of it, just be sure to type «С1-93» and not «C1-93» (those letters are not the same).
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Simple answer: game consoles usually cannot process float values. Thus they operate with integers, in particular, when calculating positions. For the game’s physics to be more or less realistic, those integers should represent fractions of a pixel. They are what’s called subpixels.
(upd) even simplier answer: subpixel position is position inside the current pixel.
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How about such kind of video tutorial?
Link to video
I apologize about Russian language, just try to catch the idea :)
(upd) translation
<Scootaloo> where we are!?
<Sweetie> it seems nowhere
<Apple> hey, look! There, behind the screen!
<…> Hi, my name is Axel and I am your animator
<Scootaloo> our who? Don’t get it
<Apple> hah he’s our creator :3
<Scootaloo> oh! fair! Well, what do you need of us, creator?
<…> you are inside an animation application. This is a video tutorial. You will help me to get it done.
<Sweetie> video tutorial on what?
<…> of course, on animation!
<Apple> you mean we’ll be creating animations? =D
<Sweetie> May this become a way to get our cutie marks? :3
…
(upd2) somehow the names got corrupted, I have no idea why, looks like a bug
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Reporting my progress in the Knuckles WIP: after 6 seconds in Angel Island 1, I am now almost 1 frame ahead of the last Aglar’s attempt which he sent me to show how to beat this stage faster. Because of the complexity of this project, I cannot give any ETA on finishing my job and strongly advise Qwerty to keep waiting.
«almost» — because the pixel gainings are so small that I am not sure if they are enough to come a frame faster (and I can easilly loose them on positioning, for example)
(upd) and again the distance between me and Aglar lowered to less than a pixel. However, I beleive I can actually go one frame ahead if I manage to hit the red spring 1 frame earlier, which should be possible by gaining better speeds from the loop and the uphill before the red spring (I succeeded to gain better speeds on the both of them, but somehow I also lost some pixels)
(upd2) fixed my mistake; finally going ahead clearly enough for at least 1 frame improvement. But yeah, I had to loose a few pixels for positioning. It’s so amazing, to slowdown to go faster.
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Thanks; in fact, I did it many times in the very beginning of my TAS life. (but I beleive that was meant to be said not only to me, right?)
By the way, did you see Razor_ua and Zenon’s glitch videos? They also have some stuff.
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