Animation/decayTo

[Xarah]

Hello everyone, I’m having trouble synchronizing animations. I’ve tried pretty much every option in Object Builder, but nothing works. Do you have any advice?

<item id="27108" article="a" name="terrarium spider">
    <attribute key="decayTo" value="27109" />
    <attribute key="duration" value="5" />
    <attribute key="destroyTo" value="2253" />
</item>

<item id="27109" article="a" name="terrarium spider">
    <attribute key="decayTo" value="27110" />
    <attribute key="duration" value="5" />
    <attribute key="destroyTo" value="2253" />
</item>

<item id="27110" article="a" name="terrarium spider">
    <attribute key="decayTo" value="27108" />
    <attribute key="duration" value="5" />
    <attribute key="destroyTo" value="2253" />
</item>

 

[Gesior.pl]

Hello everyone, I’m having trouble synchronizing animations.

I never added any item in Object Builder, but I'm 99% sure, that if you want to make synchronized animation, you got to make these 3 animation frames as frames of single item with 5 seconds duration between them. You cannot create item with decay 5 and expect it to synchronize with millisecond precision.
There are server side delays of any event (+/- XX ms) - including checkDecay - and even, if you make server side go with millisecond precision, there will be still ping jitter, that will break animation in client.
Also, when you run into area with that item (as new player), client will start animation from first millisecond. If second item - on server side - has 2 seconds of 'decay' left, it will break client side animation, that expects 5 seconds (it will replace item after 2 seconds).