Sometimes when you take a shot, the power is much weaker than you expect, and this is referred to by some people as lag.

It only occurs to some people. However I'm trying to investigate, and have knocked up some demos.

They're pool demos, I'm afraid, but the code is used for both snooker and pool.

Can you play each one for a while and give me some feedback? This could help gameplay improve for you.

http://www.poolgame.co.uk/uspooldemo/1/
http://www.poolgame.co.uk/uspooldemo/2/
http://www.poolgame.co.uk/uspooldemo/4/

what exactly are we looking for when testing? how long you want us to test each one for?

yeah i only get lag when running more than one thing eg msn and music

demo 1 gave me lag first shot lol

Edited at 21:34 Fri 5/09/08 (BST)

all them demos are super fast nice 1 nick lol

1 - seems ok
2 - seems like i need to put a little more power behind shots
3 - got *lag* on 1st shot


This was only after a few minutes and about 20 different types of shots on each one.

Just had a quick look at http://poolgame.co.uk because im nosey are you making a all in one site?

Edited at 21:43 Fri 5/09/08 (BST)

yea, 1 and 2 seems ok to me. 3 isnt that bad however 1 and 2 play better i think. maybe i dont know enough about lag, but there are no adverts on those links, surely that reduces lag so it will be better anyway?

Having played them for a while...

I find option one the most playable, and enjoyable. I prefer the 'sped up' look on it (*hopes he's right*)... and believe it works best.

Edited at 22:04 Fri 5/09/08 (BST)

I think that's actually the original website. As in the original pool game website before snooker etc.

It was before my time but I know the set-up was originally called 'Pool Sharks', which it says in the top left corner, and I seem to remember going on http://poolgame.co.uk a while ago and it was exactly the same

Poolgame was the first site I created before moving to funkypool.

Can you describe what happened when the lag occurred redrebellion? If it happens again can you take a look at the console (right click the Java icon on your systray and click open console). Some debug info should show for option 3.

It only happened on the first shot, and i went to break off and it was like it was sticking, so the ball only moved forward a inch, It was just that one shot and could easily of been my computer i'll see if it happens again and ill check the debug info if it does


edit:
shot start, power reset
elapsed time: 27ms movement: 1.3393393393393467 vel: 0.02480258035813605
elapsed time: 16ms movement: 1.3393393393393183 vel: 0.041854354354353696
elapsed time: 81ms movement: 34.82282282282283 vel: 0.21495569643717796
Start: Power set to 0.24492548103659176

Wasnt sure how much to copy

Edited at 22:15 Fri 5/09/08 (BST)

So it occurred again, for the log you showed?

yeah,,, but it did move a little further.. i pull it back and pushed forward for a half power shot and it only moved a small distance.

personally i only ever get lag if im running another program on my computer.

I think it due to the web browser personally, as i used to get a lot on ie7 but a lot less (if any) on opera.

But i tried all 3..

1) Lagging a bit
2) negative lag (lot more power than what i wanted constantly)
3) No problem at all.

(did these in ie7 though)


Oh and nick, how come you didn't include this demo one?

http://www.poolgame.co.uk/uspooldemo/3/

Edited at 13:22 Sat 6/09/08 (BST)

That was to test something different, the animation.

I made a slight change to the 4th demo to add:
http://www.poolgame.co.uk/uspooldemo/5/

Number 5 is perfetly fine nick. Every shot seemed to be really smooth, and could also to very small power shots. which i was unable to do before. Whatever the slight change was has helped :)

Great, I'm hoping option 5 will be as good as before for everyone, and improve it for the few who suffer.

Number 5 is the best by far, its quality!

OK this is pretty much the same but ignores shots when the system is too busy.

http://www.poolgame.co.uk/uspooldemo/6/

no problems with that one either.

Could see number 6 coming lol.. seen it on pool