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Coding / Re: the AI discussion
« on: March 11, 2011, 07:39:03 pm »
Hi,
I'm new in this forum and first i would say: From the short time I was playing this game it was great!
I've reading this post and I had an other way which might make the calculation of the hit probability faster. The problem could be solved by the graphic card very fast. It's made to make this kind of calculations. So when you are able to abuse it a little bit (I didn't read the source code, nor i know if we can access it in this way) its just adding a flashlight from the shooting player pointing to the targets boundary grid. Then summing up the values of the targets grid triangle edges illumination values should give a quit accurate hit probability (deviding by total light). To increase the precision of the calculation, one can increase the targets grid by additional points.
It's just a thought how it can be done with "invisible" light. It would be much faster for an often used method and very exact.
An other, nearly the same way is to let the screen show from the gun point of view with a view field which shows exactly the target, make the target a special color(lets's say red), make a in-memory image and show how many pixels of this color you have (in this case the amount of red images).
I hope we can abuse our engine this way. I'm not in graphic programming nor have I programmed c in the last years so i just can't do this myself.
It will be the fastest way to calculate the hit probability for a target, because the graphic cards are optimised to do exactly this calculation.
Of course this is just the rough description to give the idea.
I'm new in this forum and first i would say: From the short time I was playing this game it was great!
I've reading this post and I had an other way which might make the calculation of the hit probability faster. The problem could be solved by the graphic card very fast. It's made to make this kind of calculations. So when you are able to abuse it a little bit (I didn't read the source code, nor i know if we can access it in this way) its just adding a flashlight from the shooting player pointing to the targets boundary grid. Then summing up the values of the targets grid triangle edges illumination values should give a quit accurate hit probability (deviding by total light). To increase the precision of the calculation, one can increase the targets grid by additional points.
It's just a thought how it can be done with "invisible" light. It would be much faster for an often used method and very exact.
An other, nearly the same way is to let the screen show from the gun point of view with a view field which shows exactly the target, make the target a special color(lets's say red), make a in-memory image and show how many pixels of this color you have (in this case the amount of red images).
I hope we can abuse our engine this way. I'm not in graphic programming nor have I programmed c in the last years so i just can't do this myself.
It will be the fastest way to calculate the hit probability for a target, because the graphic cards are optimised to do exactly this calculation.
Of course this is just the rough description to give the idea.