Horizontal Movement Formulas
__NOTOC_ Horizontal Movement is a bit more complex than Vertical Movement, as it relies on many more factors: player actions, direction, and ground slipperiness.
On every tick, the game does these three steps:
- Acceleration is added to the player's velocity.
- The player is moved (new position = position + velocity).
- The player's velocity is reduced to simulate drag.
We'll start by introducing Multipliers in an effort to make formulas more readable.
Multipliers
- Movement Multiplier (See 45° Strafe)
- Failed to parse (unknown function "\begin{Bmatrix}"): {\displaystyle M_{t} = \begin{Bmatrix}1.3 & \textrm{Sprinting} \\ 1.0 & \textrm{Walking}\\ 0.3 & \textrm{Sneaking}\\ 0.0 & \textrm{Stopping} \end{Bmatrix} \times \begin{Bmatrix}0.98 & \textrm{Default}\\ 1.0 & \textrm{45° Strafe} \\ 0.98 \sqrt{2} & \textrm{45° Sneak} \end{Bmatrix}}
- Effects Multiplier (See Status Effects)
- Failed to parse (syntax error): {\displaystyle E_{t} = (\underset{Decreases \; by \; 15\% \; per \; level \; of \; Slowness}{\underset{Increases \; by \; 20\% \; per \; level \; of \; Speed}{\underbrace{\left ( 1 + 0.2\times Speed \right ) \: \times\: \left ( 1 - 0.15\times Slowness \right )}}} \geq 0}
- Slipperiness Multiplier (See Slipperiness)
Linear Formulas
- These simplified formulas only apply to linear movement (no change in direction).
- While this condition might seem very restrictive, these formulas are very useful to analyze conventional jumps and momentum
- We'll later expand on these formulas by including angles.
Definition:- is the player's initial speed (default = 0).
- is the player's speed on tick .
- Ground Speed:
- Failed to parse (syntax error): {\displaystyle V_{H,t} = \underset{Momentum}{\underbrace{\underset{ }{V_{H,t-1} \times S_{t-1} \times 0.91 }}} \: + \: \underset{Acceleration}{\underbrace{0.1 \times M_{t} \times E_{t} \times \left (\frac{0.6}{S_{t}} \right )^{3}}} }
- Jump Speed:
- Failed to parse (syntax error): {\displaystyle V_{H,t} = \underset{Momentum}{\underbrace{\underset{ }{V_{H,t-1} \times S_{t-1} \times 0.91 }}} \: + \: \underset{Acceleration}{\underbrace{0.1 \times M_{t} \times E_{t} \times \left (\frac{0.6}{S_{t}} \right )^{3}}} + \underset{Sprintjump \; Boost}{\underbrace{\begin{Bmatrix}0.2 & \textrm{Sprinting}\\ 0.0 & \textrm{Else}\end{Bmatrix} }}}
- Air Speed:
- Failed to parse (syntax error): {\displaystyle V_{H,t} = \underset{Momentum}{\underbrace{\underset{ }{V_{H,t-1} \times S_{t-1} \times 0.91 }}} \: + \: \underset{Acceleration}{\underbrace{\underset{ }{0.02 \times M_{t}}}} }
Complete Formulas
- Let's introduce two more variables:
- , The player's Direction in degrees (defined by their inputs and rotation)
- , The player's Facing in degrees (defined by their rotation only)
In reality, angles aren't as simple as that, as there are a limited number of significant angles (see Facing and Angles).
For the purpose of simplicity, we'll ignore this fact.
- Definition:
- and correspond to the player's initial velocity.
- and correspond to the player's velocity on tick
Ground Velocity:
- Failed to parse (syntax error): {\displaystyle V\displaystyle _{X,t} = \underset{ }{V\displaystyle _{X,t-1} \times S_{t-1} \times 0.91 } \: + \: 0.1 \times M_{t} \times E_{t} \times \left (\frac{0.6}{S_{t}} \right )^{3} \times \sin (D_{t}) }
- Failed to parse (syntax error): {\displaystyle V\displaystyle _{Z,t} = \underset{Momentum}{\underbrace{\underset{ }{V\displaystyle _{Z,t-1} \times S_{t-1} \times 0.91 }}} \: + \: \underset{Acceleration}{\underbrace{0.1 \times M_{t} \times E_{t} \times \left (\frac{0.6}{S_{t}} \right )^{3}}} \times \cos (D_{t}) }
- Jump Velocity:
- Failed to parse (syntax error): {\displaystyle V\displaystyle _{X,t} = \underset{ }{V\displaystyle _{X,t-1} \times S_{t-1} \times 0.91 } \: + \: 0.1 \times M_{t} \times E_{t} \times \left (\frac{0.6}{S_{t}} \right )^{3} \times \sin (D_{t}) + \begin{Bmatrix} 0.2 & \textrm{Sprinting}\\ 0.0 & \textrm{Else}\end{Bmatrix} \times \sin (F_{t}) }
- Failed to parse (syntax error): {\displaystyle V\displaystyle _{Z,t} = \underset{Momentum}{\underbrace{\underset{ }{V\displaystyle _{Z,t-1} \times S_{t-1} \times 0.91 }}} \: + \: \underset{Acceleration}{\underbrace{0.1 \times M_{t} \times E_{t} \times \left (\frac{0.6}{S_{t}} \right )^{3}}} \times \cos (D_{t}) + \underset{Sprintjump \; Boost }{\underbrace{\begin{Bmatrix} 0.2 & \textrm{Sprinting}\\ 0.0 & \textrm{Else}\end{Bmatrix} \times \cos (F_{t})}} }
- Air Velocity:
- Failed to parse (syntax error): {\displaystyle V\displaystyle _{X,t} = \underset{ }{V\displaystyle _{X,t-1} \times S_{t-1} \times 0.91 } \: + \: 0.02 \times M_{t} \times \sin (D_{t}) }
- Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle V\displaystyle _{Z,t} = \underset{Momentum}{\underbrace{\underset{ }{V\displaystyle _{Z,t-1} \times S_{t-1} \times 0.91 }}} \: + \: \underset{Acceleration}{\underbrace{\underset{}{0.02 \times M_{t}}}} \times \cos (D_{t}) }
Stopping Conditions
- Horizontal speed is set to 0 if the player hits a wall, or if the speed is considered to be negligible.
- Wall Collision:
- If the player hits a X-facing wall, then is set to 0 and the player is placed against the wall.
- If the player hits a Z-facing wall, then is set to 0 and the player is placed against the wall.
- Negligible Speed Threshold:
- If , momentum is cancelled and only the acceleration is left.
- If , momentum is cancelled and only the acceleration is left.
- In 1.9+, they are compared to 0.003 instead.
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