Re: [Algorithms] Target leading

[Douglas C. <zi...@ho...>]

>Excuse me for asking, but don't you WANT it to be thrown off. I am assuming 
>you are using this for a game and if I was playing you game and the 
>targeting was exactly correct for every case I would get extremely 
>frustrated.. unless you are using this for auto-aiming :)

This is for auto-aiming in a 3rd person view as well as for AI, so it needs 
to be pretty accurate when we want it to be.  Ye, it would be annoying to 
get hit every time, but the closer I can get to that, the closer we can let 
stats or skill levels factor into how many times the player actually gets 
hit.

-also-

>I think you can recalculate intersection point for every tick, so when
>target change velocity vector or acceleration,
>you recalc new intersection point and adjust direction of projectile
>accordinally, this would look more or less like homing missle.

I do this for our homing missiles and it seems to work very well.  For laser 
shots, I don't think it would look great unless I constrain the angle at 
which it 'cheats' to something fairly small.



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