#10041 closed defect (fixed)
TITANIC: Star Control: Forward and Backwords are too slow
| Reported by: | dafioram | Owned by: | dreammaster |
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| Priority: | low | Component: | Engine: Titanic |
| Version: | Keywords: | ||
| Cc: | Game: | Starship Titanic |
Description
scummvm: f4f15667a5a7cdde12f5aa7ccf1b7384277bffc4
The movement forward and backwards of the starship using the keyboard keys ";" and "," was changed in:
a42172485efb47638bd4cb27f7be8d32247a5605
The keys go in the correct directions, but I believe backwards and forwards go way to slow. Also, the max speed may also be too low. I think the previous speed for reverse before this commit was probably ok.
Reverse is way too slow, you have to wait a few seconds to even tell if you are moving.
Change History (4)
comment:1 by , 7 years ago
comment:2 by , 7 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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| Resolution: | → fixed |
| Status: | new → pending |
PR982 resolved this. Looks like you might also be working on this...
comment:3 by , 7 years ago
| Status: | pending → closed |
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Yes, I had a hunch, which turned out to be correct. The original game did the scene drawing a much higher, frenzier rate, than the ScummVM implementation does. We have to support a variety of systems, so I didn't want to waste so many cycles on needless drawing and capped the frame rate to 30 frames per second. Unfortunately, as it turned out, a few places actually did rely on the high rate, and the star control is one of them, since it updated the camera during redrawing.
To get around this, I simply call to update the camera every 10ms in the main event loop. That gives the camera a chance to update more frequently without requiring any other changes to the star control logic. And I do want to keep the actual matrix calculations identical to the original.. I still need to eventually figure out why movements to center/lock on the 2nd and 3rd star take the wrong route, so I need the figures in both the original and ScummVM to be equal so I can I figure where it goes wrong.
I tried changing the max speed and change increment in camera_mover and it doesn't seem to effect the speed for ";" and ".". I just learned that you can left click on the stars and the game zooms to the star, maybe that is what the speed controls?
I am glad that the looking around with the mouse in the starview isn't as sensitive as it is in the original game.