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Movement prediction is the estimation of where an object will be in the future based on current and/or past information about that object's position.

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I've been developing games as a hobby for a few years now and one thing that I like to do is to replicate games or a specific mechanic about them to understand how they work. I am sorry in advance ...
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I have some difficulties with my basic collision system in croweded places as it is based on simple box to box or radius detection. Sometimes characters are stuck to something or stopped because there ...
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I'm looking for help because there is one thing from the game loop which I don't clearly understand. I'm in some way of doing implementation of my own 2D game engine based on book „Build Your Own 2D ...
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I am working on a real-time multiplayer soccer game. Currently, on my game, I created an architecture like that: Every client has a copy of the game state, also the server has it too. Clients send ...
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I'm trying to predetermine if a projectile will hit a target (before the projectile has been fired). The projectile settings include an Initial Speed, Acceleration, Max Speed, and a Turn Rate. I'm ...
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I'm designing a simple MMO game server with the help of ENet (reliable UDP library) and the Godot engine for client-side. I've read tons of articles, guides, stack exchanges questions regarding ...
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I'm trying to calculate an uniformly accelerated rotation for the autopilot module in my 3d space game shooter. The autopilot should fly the spaceship to any given point in the 3d space on the ...
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I've currently implemented rollback netcode with a central, authoritative server (wooh!). I'm running into issues where if players have zero input delay, the other players see them "teleport"...
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I am trying to predict where a player will be next based on where they are now in Java. I have their XYZ position, their XYZ motion, but I don't have their speed. How can I predict where they will be ...
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I have a solar system where each body interacts with each other by force F = Gm1m2/R^2 Is it possible to predict future position of some random body after t seconds since bodies velocity and position ...
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Ive been working on a prototype for client side prediction in multiplayer games, Ive managed to make it work but for some reason the prediction breaks when the latency fluctuates. For example if I ...
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This one is a bit complex. So, I'm working on an FPS game that uses deterministic lockstep netcode, it can predict certain things like the player's own movement, weapon firing, and sounds. Entities ...
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I started a new project, a fast-paced online game (some sort of 2D MOBA). I encountered a problem with the part of netcode about client prediction & server reconciliation. Game Mechanics: 2D - ...
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Feel free to skip to the bottom and see the actual question. NOTE: Question updated below based on comments I am trying to make a space game and implement basic movement, unlike most, this is a ...
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I am building a very tiny first-person multiplayer game. I'm just aiming to get the basic rights: client-side prediction and reconciliation + entity interpolation. I have read many articles on these ...
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I'm curious what is the valid calculation of a projectile trajectory in case when: surface is not flat but spherical like a planet drag is enabled (for example 0.1) and we are in 3D I've found ...
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This question has been asked many times before, but most of the answers give solution to the problem where ball (target) is assumed to be moving at a constant velocity. In my scenario, I'm making a ...
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Continued from the answer here, I have some problem when the aircraft in my game has inertial forces after going forward and turning itself. To illustrate, from the following image (https://i.sstatic....
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I am trying to write a movement prediction code. I have found the quadratic method with these topics: [1]: How to calculate shot angle and velocity to hit a moving target? [2]: http://...
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I'm making a 2-D dice rolling game in BASIC (think mechanics similar to Devil Dice on the Playstation, but top-down 2D graphics). I'm trying to accurately represent the transitions of a die when ...
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I'm working on a multiplayer game which involves a huge amount of predictable AI enemies, and a few other players. The enemies are the most important to be accurate, because the game involves pixel ...
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so I tried to get those first and third ball to be able to move with same pace no matter how curvy their target path is, I tried to get the y position of the target that the ball is moving to, but I ...
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I have a game server which, for testing purposes, is updating once per second, or 1hz so I can correctly implement client-side prediction. Everything is running locally at the moment so there is no ...
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I'm trying to picture in my head what would be required to make an AI controlled enemy do the following in a top down pirate sailing game: Approach the player ship Bring player in line with port / ...
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I recently started working on my first multiplayer game and learning multiple game server mechanics. The game itself uses mouse movement. For the first version I used a very simple approach, where ...
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In the last month I have been struggling with an issue, movement synchronization of a leap of an AI agent in a MMO. I know some theory and basic movement was not a problem with interpolation and stuff,...
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I'm working on a throwing knife type weapon where a player free aims and then throws a knife. The knife spins through the air and on collision stops spinning and parents itself to the object it ...
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I want to implement a strategy/artillery game, similar to Worms/Arcanists. As game-development (and game-networking especially) is new to me, I was wondering whether this would be a good/performant ...
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I'm trying to build a simple networked game and I'm having trouble keeping a jump in-sync on the client and server. I've read the free gaffer on games articles and it's helped somewhat but I'm still ...
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I'm currently designing and implementing a multiplayer game server for a fairly basic 2D tile game (somewhat similar to old Zelda games like LttP). The PvP aspect of this game involves fast paced ...
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I am trying to implement client side prediction as in this article http://www.gabrielgambetta.com/fpm2.html Currently I'm doing it like this: the game runs at 60 FPS. 60 times per frame I check if an ...
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I'm implementing a game server that supports Star Control-like melee. So you have ships flying and shooting, with super simple velocity/acceleration/dampening physics to drive movement. I've read ...
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I am building a 2d multiplayer game with no physics and my own authoritative server. Already have all players getting synced each with other but their movement isn't so smooth yet. Here is the ...
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I am programming a multiplayer game. I calculate the ping in ms as : ping = the_time_i_recieved_pong - the_time_i_sent_ping I implemented client-side prediction ...
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How could I efficiently calculate shoot direction for enemy AI in order for it to hit the player? Things I know: player position, player velocity, gravity, bullet spawn position, bullet initial ...
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How would client-side prediction for movement work? From how I understand it, the player inputs "Move Forward" and the character on the player's computer instantly starts to move forward. It also ...
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There is a multiplayer game and server sends to all clients a message when a shot happens, containing bullet position, bullet velocity and timestamp. By having timestamp, we can calculate the lag, let'...
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i'm trying to move a sailing ship to the point where i clicked with the mouse. this movement should be realistic (oar at the back where the ship moves around) so if the mouse click is left and in ...
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I am programming a multiplayer game and I am concerned about the bandwidth dedicated to player movement. Imagine a 2D top down game where players can move towards any angle using the joystick. The way ...
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Im trying to create a top down shooter with multiplayer functionality. So far im using Box2D for my physics Simulation. The last few days I played around with syncing movement between Clients and ...
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I'm stuck on how to make a preview trajectory for a projectile appear when holding a button. The trajectory should start at a certain position on the scene and end wherever the player points their ...
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Having a NetworkTransform with transformSyncMode set to SyncRigidbody2D (as opposite to a ...
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I don't fully understand how client side prediction works with authoritative movement. Let's say we have: client at position(0,0) server at position(0,0) Now the client wants to move forward and ...
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I've looked around and almost all examples is see have a velocity vector which I do not have, or at this point am unable to figure out. Im trying to find the 3D position where i can launch a trap in ...
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I have read a lot about movement in multiplayer games, but not so much on preventing cheating. Let's say a client sends moves packets whenever the player press a movement button, then the server ...
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I'm building a realtime multiplayer game that runs the same 'physics' loop on client and server. I'm using a steering behavior 'wander' that is essential random movement. The client and server ...
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We know for an object: Initial point O(x,y) Initial speed (s_x,s_y) Constant vector module aceleration (A) A point P(i,j) where we have to pass through in the future. We need: A point W(x, y) so the ...
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Taking Candy Crush as an example: In a Match-3 game, how would you figure out which nearby tiles are 1 move away from creating a match? Do you basically have to do it by trial-and-error on every ...
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By implementing peer to peer connections between clients in a client-server network model I should be able to increase the prediction fidelity as this theoretically would provide the client with other ...
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I'm making a real time shooting game with Box2D as the physics engine. The gameplay is mostly about trajectory, like Angry Birds. I want to make a slow motion effect and move camera to the player when ...
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