Tower defence enemies lagging behind

[Katrist]

@QALOLTHING

like I might be doing that at some point, but not now. It would be nice for backward support though.

Alright, I already had support for that, but it does come at a slight overhead. Shouldn’t be too significant though.

@QALOLTHING

You can see the X axis offset only work sometimes.

Hm, can you use the newly released BezierPath? A new version was released 8 hours ago.

Release Removed the curve clamp · omrezkeypie/BezierPath

[QALOLTHING (QA_LOL)]

@Katrist

Hm, can you use the newly released BezierPath? A new version was released 8 hours ago.

This was happening when we were using tweens

[Katrist]

You do realize that says “Remove curve clamp” right? Not just “Remove curve”? I’m assuming that’s what you mean anyways.

Edit: I just realized what you meant, try my edited server code and it should work.

The offset was added incorrectly, because it wouldn’t take into account the current direction.
I’ve also increased the refresh_rate, so it uses less resources to calculate the track. If that doesn’t perform accurately, change it back to 0.2.

[QALOLTHING (QA_LOL)]

Is it just the formula? because i modified your code, to take into account the waypoint folder, because i started on tower targeting. Can you highlight what you changed?

[Katrist]

I changed 0.2 to 0.5 (switch this back to 0.2 if it isn’t accurate enough for your liking):

@Katrist

local refresh_rate = 0.5

I added the offset via CFrame so it takes orientation into account:

@Katrist

			model:SetAttribute("CFrame", newPath:CalculateUniformCFrame(t) * CFrame.new(offset, size.Y / 2, 0))

[Katrist]

@QALOLTHING

i started on tower targeting

By the way, make sure you reference the CFrame attribute in each model for this.

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[QALOLTHING (QA_LOL)]

I actually turned the refresh rate down to 0.1, because the enemies were shaking.(they were pausing then moving) I think its good though. Thank you!

[Katrist]

Sorry for all the inconveniences along the way lol, I’ve learnt a lot helping you so far.

Goodluck on your tower defense!

[0786ideal (ideal)]

you know, me and my friend experimenting now, because i’m only for math, but from my perspective, 200 enemies on scene is max, you could make some enemies bigger and more HP, maybe some type of damage protection (explosion proof, magic proof, bullet proof, laser proof ect.) soo player will have illusion of strong enemy, then player will keen on it, instead of a lot of them, this will make interactions better overall, because you’ll try to destroy 5 enemies, rest will be only a support for them.

[Katrist]

I’ve also realized that there was another optimization I could’ve done, which I implemented in my edited client code.

All I did was switch table.insert to directly setting the value in the table, which is 2x faster in my testing.