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Message: 2730
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 21/03/2002
Subject: Re: Willy's jump
dan_richardson2 wrote:
>With each left/right jump, Willy advances four-and-a-half characters
> "How far does Willy jump accross the screen ?"
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> Willy can clear 5 blocks so that's what, 40 pixels?
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18 steps = 36 pixels.
Willy jumps to a height of two-and-a-half characters (20 pixels) from
the platform to his feet.
Willy loses one time-frame with every diagonal jump, compared to
walking that distance.
The trajectory of Willy's jump can best be seen by making his sprite
a
16x16-pixel square.
> "Also, how many pixels does willy fall before he dies ?"safe
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> Well, he falls 4 block before he dies, so that's 32 pixels, so he's
> at falling -4 from that (i think, i could be wrong).It's even possible for Willy to fall a height which is NOT a multiple
of 8 pixels, namely when he falls from a rope (e.g. in "The Taming of
Sméagol" in JSW:LOTR), or using the superjump poke (if he falls an
odd
number of pixels, he falls slap through the platforms! :-( ).
I think that a fall of 34 pixels (just over 4 characters) would kill
Willy, but I haven't tested this.
--
Andrew Broad
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/willy/
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