War3:Source

Hi again guys,
I just had a thought of using an incrementing speed - so that a player starts out at normal speed, but over the course of a few seconds (or longer)  they build up to their max speed.  Rather than just setting their max speed straight away?
Does anyone have an idea of how I can do this?
Would it just be using a series of timers to increase the speed while a direction button is being held down?

Cheers

Ok so after a bit of research, i've come up with this which *sort of* works.
The main problem being that OnPlayerRunCommand runs (im assuming) on every gameframe - so while it increments the speed, it does it too quickly with no way to slow it down:

Incrementing Speed - Working (Sort of)
http://pastebin.com/HS1UGWRf



So I tried to adapt it like this, but it doesn't work at all...  And i can't figure out why....
Can anyone help with this bit please?

Incrementing Speed - NOT Working
http://pastebin.com/zvxt9cPu


Cheers guys

or use time simce beginning of run to calculate the ramp up speed

I got this one working - it's actually pretty good too
Code below for anyone who wants to use it

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new Float:MaxRunSpeed[]={1.0,1.2,1.3,1.4,1.5};
new Float:BaseRunSpeed[MAXPLAYERS];
new Float:CurrentPos[MAXPLAYERS+1][3];
new bool:b_IsRunning[MAXPLAYERS];

public Action:OnPlayerRunCmd(client, &buttons, &impulse, Float:vel[3], Float:angles[3], &weapon)
{
if(IsPlayerAlive(client))
{
if(!b_IsRunning[client])
{
if(buttons & IN_FORWARD || buttons & IN_BACK || buttons & IN_LEFT || buttons & IN_RIGHT || buttons & IN_MOVELEFT || buttons & IN_MOVERIGHT || buttons & IN_RUN)
{
b_IsRunning[client]=true;
GetClientAbsOrigin(client, CurrentPos[client]);
CreateTimer(0.1,StartRun,client);
}
}
}
}

public Action:StartRun(Handle:timer, any:client)
{
new skill_run=War3_GetSkillLevel(client,thisRaceID,SKILL1);
if(skill_run>0)
{
new Float:newpos[3];
GetClientAbsOrigin(client, newpos);
if(newpos[0]!=CurrentPos[client][0] && newpos[1]!=CurrentPos[client][1])
{
CurrentPos[client]=newpos;
CreateTimer(0.1,StartRun,client);
if(BaseRunSpeed[client] < MaxRunSpeed[skill_run])
{
BaseRunSpeed[client] += 0.01;
War3_SetBuff(client,fMaxSpeed,thisRaceID,BaseRunSpeed[client]);
}
else
{
War3_SetBuff(client,fMaxSpeed,thisRaceID,MaxRunSpeed[skill_run]);
}
}
else
{
BaseRunSpeed[client] = 1.0;
b_IsRunning[client]=false;
War3_SetBuff(client,fMaxSpeed,thisRaceID,1.0);
}
}
}

I highly recommend to use a non timer function.

Change this:
public Action:StartRun(Handle:timer, any:client)

To this:
public StartRun(client) {
}

And instead of calling a timer, use StartRun(client);

Cause the OnPlayerRunCmd is happening on just about as fast as OnGameFrame() function which would create tons of timers, even though yours is set for 0.1

I'd hate to see all the code you do if you always use timers for function calls!

Thanks guys,

El Diablo - initially i did try to directly call the function rather than use a timer, but that calls the function on every game frame effectively - so it doesn't allow to scale the speed increase, which is what i wanted to do.