Change Details

This changes pushing in various ways, hopefully improving the behaviour. Here are the high-level changes: - The biggest change is adding 'push pressure dampening', inspired by @Alre's suggestion (https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/56436-for-a-better-unit-movement/#comment-461987). I've tweaked the idea slightly, but essentially, units that are under a lot of pushing pressure will move slower & be harder to push. This leads to more realistic crowd movements, and more occurences of units being bogged down. - Changed the 'units crossing path' logic to be more efficient. Units will now more often look like they're actually trying to avoid each other. - Reworked the parameters -> there is now a 'spread' parameter (name comes from the CSS box-shadow spread), essentially making it easier to have less overlap. Also change default values. - Fix the 'optimisation' that units only consider units in their square. They now consider neighboring squares as well. This helps reduce some bad cases of overlap. - Slightly reduce the grid size (though testing didn't really show much difference, I'd rather err lower given the above^). - Add debug rendering mode (see screenshots). Overall, these new settings have less overlap, and less efficient movement. I think the new values remain much better than whatever we had before, but big-groups-of-units are no longer as efficient as they were, which probably fits the expectations of players in A25. Note that push-pressure has the side-effect of making people want to use formations, since those won't suffer from that so much.

This changes pushing in various ways, hopefully improving the behaviour. Here are the high-level changes: - The biggest change is adding 'push pressure dampening', inspired by @Alre's suggestion (https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/56436-for-a-better-unit-movement/#comment-461987). I've tweaked the idea slightly, but essentially, units that are under a lot of pushing pressure will move slower & be harder to push. This leads to more realistic crowd movements, and more occurences of units being bogged down. - Changed the 'units crossing path' logic to be more efficient. Units will now more often look like they're actually trying to avoid each other. - Reworked the parameters -> there is now a 'spread' parameter (name comes from the CSS box-shadow spread), essentially making it easier to have less overlap. Also change default values. - Fix the 'optimisation' that units only consider units in their square. They now consider neighboring squares as well. This helps reduce some bad cases of overlap. - Slightly reduce the grid size (though testing didn't really show much difference, I'd rather err lower given the above^). - Add debug rendering mode (see screenshots). Overall, these new settings have less overlap, and less efficient movement. I think the new values remain much better than whatever we had before, but big-groups-of-units are no longer as efficient as they were, which probably fits the expectations of players in A25. Note that push-pressure has the side-effect of making people want to use formations, since those won't suffer from that so much. Screenshot of the debug mode (compile-time choice): The sphere are the units, the redder the higher the 'push pressure'. Lines above are pushing vectors, lines below are individual pushing forces. As you can see, it's a _mess_. {F2474634} Video: New default settings: {F2474637} A25 settings: {F2474642} New settings, without pushing pressure: {F2474643} Pushing deactivated: {F2474650}

This changes pushing in various ways, hopefully improving the behaviour. Here are the high-level changes: - The biggest change is adding 'push pressure dampening', inspired by @Alre's suggestion (https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/56436-for-a-better-unit-movement/#comment-461987). I've tweaked the idea slightly, but essentially, units that are under a lot of pushing pressure will move slower & be harder to push. This leads to more realistic crowd movements, and more occurences of units being bogged down. - Changed the 'units crossing path' logic to be more efficient. Units will now more often look like they're actually trying to avoid each other. - Reworked the parameters -> there is now a 'spread' parameter (name comes from the CSS box-shadow spread), essentially making it easier to have less overlap. Also change default values. - Fix the 'optimisation' that units only consider units in their square. They now consider neighboring squares as well. This helps reduce some bad cases of overlap. - Slightly reduce the grid size (though testing didn't really show much difference, I'd rather err lower given the above^). - Add debug rendering mode (see screenshots). Overall, these new settings have less overlap, and less efficient movement. I think the new values remain much better than whatever we had before, but big-groups-of-units are no longer as efficient as they were, which probably fits the expectations of players in A25. Note that push-pressure has the side-effect of making people want to use formations, since those won't suffer from that so much. Screenshot of the debug mode (compile-time choice): The sphere are the units, the redder the higher the 'push pressure'. Lines above are pushing vectors, lines below are individual pushing forces. As you can see, it's a _mess_. {F2474634} Video: New default settings: {F2474637} A25 settings: {F2474642} New settings, without pushing pressure: {F2474643} Pushing deactivated: {F2474650}