0006703: Sharp movements in AI animation transitions on high FPS

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0006703	The Dark Mod	Coding	public	20.04.2026 15:00	20.04.2026 15:02

Reporter	stgatilov	Assigned To	stgatilov
Priority	normal	Severity	normal	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	assigned	Resolution	open
Product Version	TDM 2.14
Target Version	TDM 2.15

Summary	0006703: Sharp movements in AI animation transitions on high FPS
Description	When guards go on patrol and turn on path_corner, they often do quick and weird movement on high FPS. It does not happen on FPS < 60 though.
Steps To Reproduce	Execute "map turn" on SVN assets.
Additional Information	Originally reported here: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/23142-npcs-swaying-from-side-to-side-while-turning-procedural-animation/#comment-507684
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stgatilov 20.04.2026 15:01 administrator ~0017266	Most likely caused by waits of 16 ms instead of one frame in animation script code. During 0004772, nbohr1more replaced all waitFrame with wait(16 ms) in r15198, r15199 I guess now it's time to go through these waits one by one and replace most of them back to waitFrame.

stgatilov 20.04.2026 15:02 administrator ~0017267	Also note that in svn rev 11287 I changed behavior of waitFrame, so that it always waits for 1 frame. For some reason previously it waited 16 ms for normal threads, but "until next call" for the so-called "manual-control" frames, which include Actor/AI threads.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
20.04.2026 15:00	stgatilov	New Issue
20.04.2026 15:00	stgatilov	Status	new => assigned
20.04.2026 15:00	stgatilov	Assigned To	=> stgatilov
20.04.2026 15:01	stgatilov	Note Added: 0017266
20.04.2026 15:02	stgatilov	Note Added: 0017267