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Here is a customisable race module.

i88gerbils · Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 9:31 pm Post subject:

Is there a Changelog from last version? Nevermind. I'll look at it myself :d.

Stay tuned for an editted suggestion list...
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Bak · Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:27 pm Post subject:

good work, although I'd prefer regions to specifing rectangles... not a big deal

i88gerbils · Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 6:11 pm Post subject:

Hmm, documentation for 1.2 isn't correct. I'm guessing all those new "Ready-" and "Finish-" config options aren't enabled yet. Figured as much since WarpOnStart is still there.

Or maybe you didn't put the right source in for this version? Haven't tried the binary yet. Yes, that is the problem.

binary - v1.2
source - v1.1

Smong · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 4:04 pm Post subject:

AAArgh!!

-Smong- · Guest Offline

Hopefully this one will contain the correct source code.

i88gerbils · Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 8:36 pm Post subject:

First public suggestion:

A checkpoint wav message (just the wav, not the message) seems to be playing after crossing the finish line. This plays a little before the finish message, which may also contain a sound. It doesn't seem like it should do this though...

-Smong- · Guest Offline

It's actually line 930: do_actions(NULL, p, "CheckPoint"); that is causing the problem. At the moment I don't have the time to come up with a practical solution as things like %chkpt need to work as expected (quick/dirty fix is to comment out line 930, and add else do_actions(NULL, p, "CheckPoint"); at line 971).

i88gerbils

Smong had told me that eventually the ability to write your own reward (points_race) module will be added into the race module. I'd like to share my ideas on the reward ideas I have come up with, and hope that maybe some other people might suggest some. These would be formulas so that depending on the zone settings, a zone dev can modify a number to reflect that zone's concept.

Currently I have two modes: time-based (Time Trial) and place-based (Competitive).

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ArenaPlayers*RewardModifier/Place

In this example, points would be divided evenly across the players according to standing. So if RaceModifier was set at 100, there were 50 players, then the results would be:

1 - 5000
2 - 2500
...
25 - 200
...
50 - 100

Every player who finishes gets points. With the current race module, every player must finish, but that will change.

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if( place != 1 )
ArenaPlayers*RewardModifier/(1stPlaceTime-Yourtime)
else ArenaPlayers*RewardModifier/1

Here, the point distribution is based on how well you did versus the 1st player's finish time. This is probably a better test of race skill (kills, speed, etc ...). If there is a wide gap between 1st place and 50th at say 2 minutes, then the reward will be much lower.

5000/120 = 42 points (rounded to tenths)

You could also make this more intense by multiplying the player's standing by their time or the difference in times:

5000/(120*50) = 1 point (rounded up)

The difference in time would be the better alternative, and may result in a greater gap in point distribution. Although this would penalize everyone.

What do other zone devs think about a reward solution for racing?

i88gerbils · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 10:25 am Post subject:

Probably already know this, but race is broken in 1.3.2 due to changes.

What is different about CommandFunc in cmdman.h that is giving warnings in the following?

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--- asss-1.2.0/src/race.c 2004-08-13 13:43:20.000000000 -0400
+++ asss-1.3.2/src/race.c 2004-10-07 10:11:09.000000000 -0400
@@ -70,9 +70,14 @@
#include <ctype.h> //isdigit()

#include "asss.h"
-#include "region.h" //rect_t
+//#include "region.h" //rect_t
#include "packets/speed.h"

+typedef struct rect_t
+{
+ int x, y, w, h;
+} rect_t; // From old region.h
+
typedef struct
{
u8 completedlaps;
@@ -1097,7 +1102,7 @@
pdkey = pd->AllocatePlayerData( sizeof(pdata) );
if (pdkey == -1) return MM_FAIL;

- cmd->AddCommand("race", Crace, race_help);
+ cmd->AddCommand("race", Crace, ALLARENAS, race_help); // needs arena param in 1.3.x
mm->RegCallback(CB_ARENAACTION, ArenaAction, ALLARENAS);
mm->RegCallback(CB_PLAYERACTION, PlayerAction, ALLARENAS);
net->AddPacket(C2S_POSITION, Pppk);
@@ -1112,7 +1117,7 @@
mainloop->ClearTimer(timer, NULL);
mainloop->ClearTimer(countdown_timer, NULL);

- cmd->RemoveCommand("race", Crace);
+ cmd->RemoveCommand("race", Crace, ALLARENAS); // needs arena param in 1.3.x
mm->UnregCallback(CB_ARENAACTION, ArenaAction, ALLARENAS);
mm->UnregCallback(CB_PLAYERACTION, PlayerAction, ALLARENAS);
net->RemovePacket(C2S_POSITION, Pppk);

Dr Brain · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 1:18 pm Post subject:

void CommandFunc(const char *command, const char *params, Player *p, const Target *target)

This means adding const char *command in most cases.
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Smong · Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 3:44 am Post subject:

By just looking at the diff it seems ok, I haven't got the facilities to compile or anything as I moved house and forgot my boot disk and blank floppies. But later today I might be able to freeload Visual Studio

(although possibly it contains .NET

)

i88gerbils · Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 1:27 pm Post subject:

No, the warnings did mean something :P Thanks Dr. Brain. Got back to this problem, and had to change CRace definition besides the changes to AddCommand.

blah. .patch or .diff attachments not allowed. Silly MineGoBOOM.

i88gerbils · Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 11:45 pm Post subject: Race 1.3i

Okay. Time to stop bothering Smong with silly race stuff. Here's v1.3i.

This should work. Compiled and tested on my machine. If it doesn't work or you have problems tell me about it.

All documentation should be included in the archive. Prettied things up a little.

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CHANGELOG
11/05/04 v 1.3i i88gerbils

* "i" branch started ;-)
* RaceReward hack, does not use a separate module.
* RaceDelay timer added to set maximum race time.
* AutoRace functionality added to start races automatically.
* InStartToPlay changed to spec OR ignore non-racers.
* stats->SendUpdates works. Now scores will update immediately. Yay.

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TODO
* RaceMinDelay min=0

Minimum time needed to passa checkpoint before being disqualified.

* RaceRewardMode

Add in a new race reward mode based on time. This will probably be
players^2 * RaceReward / rank / (mytime-1sttime) [except for 1st place racer of course!]

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

7-zip (or p7zip) is your friend

Solo Ace · Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 2:09 am Post subject:

OMG UBER OWNED $$$.

i88gerbils · Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 1:16 pm Post subject:

Yay saving about 2 seconds of d/l for dialup users...

Dr Brain · Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 2:08 pm Post subject:

If you factor in the time it takes to download 7zip, it actually takes longer.

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

Dr Brain · Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 4:15 pm Post subject:

We ASSS people work in Linux. "tar zxvf" does the trick for tar.gz.

Of course, in most cases "tar jxvf" will do bz2.

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

...so? You still had to download something, even if it came with your distro. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually you could do 7z a filename.7z file in some distro without downloading anything extra.

Dr Brain · Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 8:07 pm Post subject:

Why do we have to download it if it came with our distro?

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

Uh, I s'pose you could buy a CD and have it mailed to you.

D1st0rt · Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 11:11 pm Post subject:

or you could just get it through osmosis via the coolant system you installed when you overclocked your processor
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SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

could spawn it through your frontal lobe