Problem with New Pixel Movement

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Sep 3 2011, 11:56 pm
Hello,

The new Pixel Movement is working okay for me with clients, but it doesn't work smoothly for the NPCs. My world.fps var is 40 and step_size var for movable atoms is 4. I can move my mob smoothly but the NPCs won't move smoothly. It looks like they are jumping by 4 pixels.

mob/testnpc
    name = "Test"
    icon = 'base.dmi'
    New()
        .= ..()
        walk_rand(src, 4, 0)


Any help will be appreciated.

- Hashir
Sep 4 2011, 3:49 am
Because you have the lag set to 4, and the speed set to 0 (which defaults to the step_size of 4)

so essentially what you have is
walk_rand(ref=src,lag=4,speed=4)

which will make it jump 4 pixels every 4 ticks instead of moving 4 pixels as smoothly as possible. set the lag to like 0.5 or something
Sep 4 2011, 5:21 am
In response to Ill Im
Ah, thank you for helping with that.

I have another question, the animation of the movement seems a little, fast or something with Pixel Movement. I tried setting the movement speed in icon file to 0.25 and many other higher and lower values but it won't work. Any help?
Sep 4 2011, 7:44 pm
In response to Hashir
Frame delays are in 1/10ths of a second, regardless of what world.fps is.

Pixel Movement removes gliding completely because, at a higher framerate and a lower step_size, moving normally looks like you're gliding already.
Sep 5 2011, 12:51 am
In response to Kaiochao
My problem is fixed by downloading the new 1103 Beta. Anyway, thanks for your help.