Hand2Hand Pre-alpha 0.1.0.4b patch

Engine

We gain here much more performance concerning the CPU and the RAM. When 2 hands are fully loaded, the game eats 8x less RAM !

Frame per second

☼ Game set to 100 FPS by default ☼ Can be displayed in game, toggled in the option menu (by default disabled) ☼ The game no longer spam frames as much a possible, it will stick instead to the intended FPS value ☼ Even if the display lags behind the game is somewhat at the same speed ☼ Menu framerate is now coherent with the rest of the game ☼ The FPS can be set in options to ► 50 ► 60 ► 70 ► 80 ► 90 ► 100 (default) ► 120 ► 144 ► 200 ► 240

Fluid mode

☼ By default enabled ☼ The previous basic mode is now deleted ☼ Its option slot is replaced by the FPS setting

On the fly FPS change

☼ No longer available ☼ Zero and 1 keys no longer do anything ☼ Slomo mode still available

Frame buffering

☼ Disabled by default, since they tend to lag the game a bit in combat ☼ The game runs better when loading everything at start instead of loading on the fly

Unarmed

Idle, Move Front, Move Back, Hit and Spawn reworked

Interface

Class selection

☼ Going back from class selection no longer keep the validation ☼ Random & Mirror icons are now correctly integrated to the class lists

Fade in/out

☼ Going from a menu to another fades in/out black ☼ Commands are locked when fading in

Navigation

Escaping a menu will return to the previous one, not the main menu

Combat

Jump & Landing

The shake is only vertical when a hand lands. The other shake sources are unchanged

Frame delay

When enabled, hit hands will display a hit frame during a frame delay. Only for 1v1 and 1vBot for now.

Hit

A hand trembles when stunned by an attack proportionally to the remaining stun duration

Bug fixes

☼ [Demo] A hand can normally attack when bellow 5 frames of non-stun recovery, but the default recovery animation had higher display priority Fixed ☼ [Demo] A stunned hand could attack & jump Fixed ☼ [Demo] The AI doesn't adapt its reaction speed to the game speed Partially fixed. Only the attack chance is dynamic, not the check frequency. ☼ [0.1.0.3] Inputs are still counted even when the game window is not active Fixed ☼ [0.1.0.4a] Random & Mirror icons aren't reloaded when changing resolution Fixed

Behind the scenes

OpenGL

Switched from DirectX9, to allow on the fly sprite flip

Sprite loading

☼ Each frame no longer have 1 or two version of the same sprite (normal and/or flipped). ☼ When needed the frame is flipped for display ☼ Doesn't concern hitboxes and hurboxes (they are still cloned) ☼ This saves a lot of performance on slower computers.

Frame digestion

☼ This was a system to digest every frames of the game into one single big image. ☼ The goal was to puke frames on execution instead of loading them one by one from the disc, which is in theory faster ☼ On practice, this system has a bottleneck when grabbing part of an image, making it... slower than intended ; due to how Purebasic works ☼ The game still use the default loading system until all of the bottleneck are solved ☼ The digestion could save some Mb in disk, but the performance cost was too high ☼ Kept for later, frozen in the meantime

Known issues

☼ [Demo] Gravity kicks in only when a movement attack ends ☼ [0.1.0.2] Changing to windowed mode at screen resolution will tear the display, but fine in reverse order ☼ [0.1.0.3] It is difficult to successfully take a screenshot, it is black instead ☼ [0.1.0.3] It is difficult to go back to the game window after switching to another ☼ [0.1.0.3] Cannot move the window in windowed mode, or at least it is very difficult ☼ [0.1.0.3] Not all resources are freed when navigating in menus & gamemodes ☼ [0.1.0.4b] Picking 50FPS or bellow could break a bit the physics ☼ [0.1.0.4b] When the game laggs the physics breaks a bit