#It takes more time to accelerate and decelerate when full#
#It takes more time to accelerate and decelerate when simulator#

#It takes more time to accelerate and decelerate when simulator#

I am quite certain that there actually is such a solution, but I couldn’t come up with one that looked believable when I plotted it out, so I went back to square one and wrote a simple numerical simulator that would just generate the data points I needed to make my plots rather than trying to come up with the general formula. This led me down a horrible rabbit-hole for the better part of two days, trying to figure out a closed-form expression that would allow plotting comparisons showing speed over time, or distance over time, or speed over distance.

The same is true for switching between one-handing and two-handing.This past week I’ve been working on a slide deck that people can use to present the Regional Rail concept to non-transportation-nerd audiences, and one of the things that I wanted to include, just as an aside, was a couple of slides explaining the “stop penalty” and why it’s so bad for traditional diesel-hauled commuter rail like we have in Boston. Since switching weapons while two-handed always comes with an animation change, this is to be avoided entirely.

Curved Greatswords, Greataxes, Great Hammers, Greatswords.

Fists, Axes, Bows, Crossbows, Curved Swords, Daggers, Hammers, Katanas, Straight Swords, Thrusting Swords, Whips, Shields, Catalysts, Talismans.

The following weapon types share movement animations and can be switched between while one-handed without time lost: This also reduces speed for a frame and since there is no acceleration period to skip while already sprinting, it loses time. When two-handing/one-handing or toggling between different types of weapons during a sprint the sprinting animation can change. As a result, in real-time speedruns the speed reduction is realistically not fully avoidable. It is possible to perform an upper body animation just after a sprint starts which avoids the speed reduction and still achieves immediate acceleration, but the timing is precise. The instant acceleration however has a larger effect than this reduction in speed. When a sprinting animation starts during an upper body animation, the character's speed is drastically reduced for a frame.

Switching arrow type with a bow equipped.Weapon switching with a d-pad (also known as 'toggling').This means that only when transitioning to animations with a higher movement speed is it faster to perform upper body animations. Skipping the deceleration is undesirable however since it keeps the higher speed for longer.

#It takes more time to accelerate and decelerate when full#

This results in the full speed being reached immediately. The time of acceleration/deceleration can be completely skipped if an upper body animation is performed during the acceleration/deceleration period. Taking into account the information in Skipping the Acceleration Time, Male becomes faster since the difference in acceleration to faster speeds can be nullified and the slower deceleration of Male can be used to save time over Female.

This means time is saved with a Female character over a Male one when starting a run from standstill/walking, but time is lost when ending a sprint. This means that after inputting these movement changes it takes time for the character to reach the full speed of the respective animation.ĭifferences Between Male and Female Accelerationĭue to the differences in movement animations between Male and Female characters, their acceleration behaviour differs too.įemale characters accelerate faster and decelerate faster than Male characters when transitioning to the running animation. In Dark Souls, there is an acceleration time while running where the character accelerates from standstill to running, and from running to sprinting.