Ball logic

[Oss117]

Question related to ball motion and logic

I was able to add the ball to Open Kick Off, but I am trying to fit as close as possible to KO2 rendering.

So, I would need some informations about how the ball is displayed.

Steve Screech already gave me some inputs but I need more informations

Here what Steve told me:

from Steve Screech
date Dec 5, 2007 11:49 AM
subject RE: Open Kick Off

Ok can't tell you too much about the ball physics but the ball display on the screen was fairly simple. A percentage of the balls height was added to the vertical position of the ball to give it a little movement up the screen the higher the ball went and the shadow was offset from the ball position in a similar manner with the vertical position dependent on a percentage of the ball height and the horizontal also on a percentage of the ball height. Can't remeber the percentages but experimentation by you should solve this.

For the tactics i can't remember the exact ordering or format but you are pretty much correct with your assumptions. The double tactics we used in the later version made for a more tactical game however the game was also less exciting with them as it made them far harder to break down. As far as I can remember I don't think the files were encrypted at all but i guess it is possible especially due to you difficulties reading the extra pitch types

Related to the ball's sprites, I wanted to know at which height level which ball's sprite is displayed, there are 8 sprites and 1 for the shadow, let's define them as ballSprite[0], ballSprite[1], ..., ballSprite[8] where ballSprite[8] is the shadow



Would it possible Steve to make a special KOCV version which display during a game informations about the ball.

eg. ball velocity, ball direction angle, ball angle from the pitch, ball height, ball position (x,y), shadow offset position (x,y), ball's sprite displayed

All informations needed to understand ball motion and display
Thanks

[Steve Camber]

From KO2PC:

Code: Select all

void DrawBall(float x,float y,float z)
{
   //8 balls getting bigger, then shadow

   int scrx=x;
   int scry=y;
   int shadx=scrx+(z/2);
   int shady=scry-(z/2);

   int ballframe=shadx-scrx;
   if (ballframe<4)
   {
      //low ball, sprite contained in shadow
      scry-=z/2;
      if (ballframe>=0 && ballframe<8)
         DrawSprite(scrx,scry,ballframe);
   }
   else
   {
      //draw shadow
      {
         int spr=8;
         DrawSprite(shadx,shady,spr);
      }
      //draw ball
      scry-=(z/2);
      ballframe=min(3,z/32);
      {
         int spr=ballframe+4;
         DrawSprite(scrx,scry,spr);
      }
   }
}


[Torchiador]

Damn! this is Greek to me!
I'm sure that Spyros and Alkis have no problems into read the post above...

[Oss117]

From KO2PC:

Code: Select all

void DrawBall(float x,float y,float z)
{
   //8 balls getting bigger, then shadow

   int scrx=x;
   int scry=y;
   int shadx=scrx+(z/2);
   int shady=scry-(z/2);

   int ballframe=shadx-scrx;
   if (ballframe<4)
   {
      //low ball, sprite contained in shadow
      scry-=z/2;
      if (ballframe>=0 && ballframe<8)
         DrawSprite(scrx,scry,ballframe);
   }
   else
   {
      //draw shadow
      {
         int spr=8;
         DrawSprite(shadx,shady,spr);
      }
      //draw ball
      scry-=(z/2);
      ballframe=min(3,z/32);
      {
         int spr=ballframe+4;
         DrawSprite(scrx,scry,spr);
      }
   }
}


omg it works pretty well, is this code is reinterpreted from the original KO2 assembly source code Steve ?

Soon I will post a new demo with the ball, it is so funny to see it react as KO2 original, I tell you

[Steve Camber]

omg it works pretty well, is this code is reinterpreted from the original KO2 assembly source code Steve ?

Soon I will post a new demo with the ball, it is so funny to see it react as KO2 original, I tell you

Yes, it's practically a line by line translation of the 68000 original, converted to C It looks correct in KO2PC, so I'm confident that I haven't messed up anywhere!

[Oss117]

omg it works pretty well, is this code is reinterpreted from the original KO2 assembly source code Steve ?

Soon I will post a new demo with the ball, it is so funny to see it react as KO2 original, I tell you

Yes, it's practically a line by line translation of the 68000 original, converted to C It looks correct in KO2PC, so I'm confident that I haven't messed up anywhere!

Cool!

Here is the little demo I promised, double click on jar file or on the run.bat

http://www.yourfilehost.com/media.php?cat=other&file=4780KOTrials.zip

Don't pay attention to the ball/player collision, it is still buggy and noisy , but when pushing the ball and while pressing S or Z key, you will see the ball effect almost as the original KO2, thanks Steve! S for shoot, Z for a goal keeper shoot like

Btw Steve, I would be very interested to have a look into KOPC, may I ask you to put the source file as a zip file on your ftp, please ?

Next step for Open Kick Off is a refactoring of the player class. And a big cleanup of the code.

Still nobody interested to help me ?

[Torchiador]

Great work, man! really impressive!
I'd like to help you but I'm not able, I'm sorry.

[Freshmaker]

wow. Tried it. Sweet.

[GingerPete]

ok now i am confused.

Whats going on here, KOPC? When did you convert this code steve?
And how much have you done?

Also why not using pointers?

ALso whats open kick of in ? is it java? shame i would love to help, only i worked in c++ when i was making a remake. Only got as far as players on a pitch, a very crude tactivc engine and some simply AI, stay in positions or chase the ball or go there etc etc, but players could pass messages to each other, which was cool. Like pass to me, etc. Not quite how Kick off did i i suspect

[Stainy]

ok now i am confused.

Whats going on here, KOPC? When did you convert this code steve?
And how much have you done?

Also why not using pointers?

ALso whats open kick of in ? is it java? shame i would love to help, only i worked in c++ when i was making a remake. Only got as far as players on a pitch, a very crude tactivc engine and some simply AI, stay in positions or chase the ball or go there etc etc, but players could pass messages to each other, which was cool. Like pass to me, etc. Not quite how Kick off did i i suspect

hehe

[Oss117]

Also why not using pointers?

Don't understand what you mean by saying this... Anyway everything is pointer in Java

ALso whats open kick of in ? is it java? shame i would love to help, only i worked in c++ when i was making a remake. Only got as far as players on a pitch, a very crude tactic engine and some simply AI, stay in positions or chase the ball or go there etc etc, but players could pass messages to each other, which was cool. Like pass to me, etc. Not quite how Kick off did i i suspect

Yes, Open Kick Off is written in Java, why
* Java is cross-platform
* Java is now fast, Double buffering with bufferstrategy or volatile image
* OpenGL renderer via JOGL or LWJGL, Hardware-accelerated images
* Fully object oriented library, utilizing Java OOP to maximum
* Java is actively developed, especially for games (mobile etc...)

So If you want to learn this language, Open Kick Off is a funny project to enter the Java world.

[Steve Camber]

ok now i am confused.

Whats going on here, KOPC? When did you convert this code steve?
And how much have you done?

It's KO2PC - http://www.ko-gathering.com/phpbb2/view ... hp?t=13333

Also why not using pointers?

Why use pointers here?!

[Oss117]

Steve may I ask you to have a look into the KO2PC source file? Could you make a zip file available on your ftp for download please