Need Some Help on Hit Detection 😅

[Fergo]

There’s a new problem. To track twelve directions, we need to figure out how to time the updated coordinates so it would predict where the trajectory would go.
Think of it like BH’s graphing calculator. The game is the graph, and we’re using functions to help us guide the pseudo-projectile.
Remember, rise over run:
For the northeast directions, you’d need to track if the function is (Y)2/1(X) or (Y)1/2(X), all positives.
For the southeast directions, you’d need to have the Y in the negatives and X in the positives.
For the southwest directions, you’d need to have both X and Y in the negatives.
For the northwest directions, you’d need to have X in the negatives and Y in the positives.
There are no straight diagonals; there are only split diagonals and straight cardinals.
I need to know when to time it, e.g. 0.3 seconds, by knowing the gadget speed. There will be 3 categories:
Slow (Such as the Quantum Portal)
Average (Such as the P.M.L or something else)
Fast (Such as the Blaster, my beloved)

This needs to be listed for every gadget.

Gosh, after this is finished people will think it’s a GitHub plugin, looking at the code.

Searching for “GitHub” plugin…

SIRI DON’T ANSWER THAT

[Boss_1s]

I think there is a tug or resources or smth on all the gadgets and their speed, I’ma try to pull it up to help with the calc ing

Should be in my bookmarks… or not

[Boss_1s]

Found it:

Wiki on Gimkit Gadgets

Intro: So originally, @AMineRide made a guide about his preference on which gadgets were better, based on actual statistics. So I am making this wiki for him so that way as new gadgets come out we can add them here. - - - Format - - - Use this so it stays organized! (Gadget Name) Gadgets Zapper Wooden Wand Blaster Snowball Launcher* Portable Muffin Launcher (P.M.L. for short) Slingshot Evil Eye Quantum Portal Pickaxe** Pixelator* Stoneburster Twister Prickler Timekeeper *T…

Just gotta clock through each gadget and see

Idk what your threshold is for each category so I’ll let you do it

[Fergo]

The Timekeeper speed isn’t listed, so I’m putting it at medium. I’ve got them all!.. but we still need timing for each category.
Zapper: Average
Wooden Wand: Average
Blaster^[1]: Fast
Snowball Launcher: Average
P.M.L.: Average
Slingshot: Fast
Evil Eye: Slow
Quantum Portal: Slow
Pixelator: Average
Stoneburster: Average
Twister: Average
Prickler: Average

Fill in the blank:
Slow Timing: 0._ seconds
Average Timing: 0._ seconds
Fast Timing: 0._ seconds

Get- oh, that actually helps.

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1. My Beloved ↩︎

[Boss_1s]

Wel let’s see…I’m choosing one from each category and shooting them across 7 blocks of terrain to see their speed

Prickler - 0.97 secs over 7 blocks
Blaster - 0.37 secs over 7 blocks (waow)
Quantum Portal - 1.78 secs over 7 blocks

So given that the speed of a fast gadget is abt 18.198 bps (blocks per sec), average gadgets is abt 7.216 bps and slow ones take like 4 bps, now we just fill in the blanks with a little math:

Actually wait we need to use seconds per block

fast = 0.0528571429 spb
average = 0.138571429 spb
slow = 0.254285714 spb

So, i believe the timing would be the spb of each cat.

However, because i chose a “representative” for each cat, this means that the above result aren’t that…accurate. If you want total accuracy, then we’re gonna have to test each gadget and average each cat of gadget. My current suggestion however is to just test the numbers we have rn, and worry about the overall later.

I dont have an ego. surprising

@Fergo

What is a “cat”

Category, im just lazy lol

[Fergo]

It needs to be simpler. To be frank, only one check needs to occur, somewhere in the middle of the whole trajectory. This trades off a bit of accuracy, but it leans more to efficiency than it backs away from accuracy.
What is a “cat” :\

Don’t get arrogant. I know something you don’t, Boss_1-

Get out, ego. Seriously.

I forgor that we need the range of each gadget, so the number of checks vary for each gadget

[Boss_1s]

@Fergo

I forgor that we need the range of each gadget, so the number of checks vary for each gadget

The ammo range should be in the guide.

Other than that, im kinda stuck now