Post: #1

I am resuming the works in my server after a long time, and I have seen the same problems I had years ago.

At 99.9% (or less) of archery everything is okay, but when a player reach 100.0% of archery, suddenly the player tries to face the target at every step, and it is very difficult to get distance from the enemy.

I had test it in a freshly installed sphere, so no problems with any scripts. It´s a problem of the Sphere core.

My question is: Is it possible to fix this problem somehow?
Any workaround is welcomed. I had thought a lot of possibilites, but no one seems to work for me.

Thanks in advance.

Post: #2

Is facing turned off in the INI?

Post: #3

// COMBAT_NODIRCHANGE 00001 // Not rotate player when fighting (like was in 0.51a)

Post: #4

Is it on or off though? That is the question.

Post: #5

i think it's not the facing, every time the player(with archery 100.0) run around monsters the trigger @hittry get fired.

TRIGGER '@hittry' called 354 times, took 0.2126 msec average (0.1279 min, 0.9469 max), total: 75.3303 msec

After a quick run(without hitting nothing,1-2 sec passed)

TRIGGER '@hittry' called 364 times, took 0.2135 msec average (0.1279 min, 0.9469 max), total: 77.7706 msec

But looking in the sphereskills.scp, in the archery part , there is a :

[SKILL 31]
DEFNAME=Skill_Archery
KEY=Archery
TITLE=Archer
PROMPT_MSG=
DELAY=2.0,0.1 <-

Commenting the Delay field and restarting the server,the problem seems to be fixed.

Still , maybe the delay field it's needed for archery ? or it's just an error ?

Post: #6

It´s a fresh install of Sphere, so no Combatflags are activated (set to 0).

The character tries at every step to face his target, only at 100.0% of skill. If I activate the COMBAT_NODIRCHANGE flag, the effect is less noticeable, but still happens and it´s very anoying.
And the melee combat is also modified. It´s a pity to lose a cool feature (facing your enemy) only for this bug.


The solution of darksun84 works!
Commenting the line of delay in archery at sphere_skills.scp resolves the problem perfectly, but I don´t know if it would have any side effects. I´ll try.

Thank you very much!

Post: #7

By the way it's not a bug, if we change the 2.0,0.1 to 2.0,10.0 at 100.0 archery the hittry trigger will be fired after 10 seconds.

So i tried with 2.0,2.0 and looks fine, but others combat skills doesn't have a delay so i don't know :/

Post: #8

I'd turn it off and just your weapon speed