EVE Corporation - Page 431

On March 27 2011 20:21 furet00 wrote:


Thats because turrets are turrets and bullets are bullets. Apples and Oranges.
Turret animation is easy because it is an object with a "hardpoint" on the ship model, and it has simply its orientation towards the center coord of the target ship.
You could perfectly have a 360 deg. rotational turret (picture a strip miner type of turret) following the target. There you go; Animated turret.

Missile launcher animation doesn't induce lag. its a client side calculation and the data doesn't need to be transmitted over network. It could cause slowdown on low-end machines, but you could have a setting to enable/disable the animations.

The missile itself, once launched (and placed into the server's cargo), now is departing from the middle of your ship. The moment the client receives the info that a missile has been launched, you see it on your screen launching from your ships center.
Your client can perfectly move that missile model a few units in space to be departing from a simulated hardpoint, on which you have an animated turret sitting.
This calculation is client side only. The network traffic will only contain info on missile launched, missile impact.

This isn't a troll, I just hate the ease of use of the term lag when people mean slowdown, and its client side calculations and not networking thats causing it.