I'm confused... [locked]

Roxinos:

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Roxinos

2005-04-28 08:18:02 am

Well...not exactly confused as ignorant and annoyed...

I constantly hear talk about frames and blocks. I know what a block is, pretty much, but a frame I'm not too sure about. And even if I do know what it is, I can't identify it. And how are you able to identify how many blocks Samus has traveled, or how many frames or anything like that? That is my question. *nods* Please help...

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Skreemaster:

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Skreemaster

2005-04-28 08:38:49 am

I'll be back. Maybe...

1 block is a unit of space on the screen. It's (I think) 16 by 16 pixels. A frame is a single image displayed on the screen. It is also a unit of time. It is 1/50 or 1/60 of a second, depending upon the video standard and hence frame rate.

Roxinos:

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Roxinos

2005-04-29 08:32:57 am

That's what I thought...but how exactly can people judge how many frames have passed...geez...

Dragonfangs:

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Dragonfangs

2005-04-29 08:40:25 am

Frames are usually used as a very small measure of time. As in "WD was only 10 frames from doing the 0% trick without using frame-by-frame"
It's very rarely used as a longer time, except for quarkers who use it to time their runs more accuretly.

Smops:

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Smops

2005-04-29 09:11:39 am

Video's play at a certain framerate. That means X frames per second. 60 Hz video = 60 frames/second. 60 Hz is the standard nowadays. In 5 seconds, 300 frames pass.

Kejardon:

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Kejardon

2005-04-29 10:23:23 am

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I often moniter how many frames elapsed by checking the internal game clock. Between that and the positions of whatever I'm looking at, I can calculate the pixels-per-frame speed of whatever.

Skreemaster:

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Skreemaster

2005-04-29 10:26:46 am

I'll be back. Maybe...

I've often wondered how fast a Super Missile goes...

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nate

2005-04-29 10:15:32 pm

君だけの

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i just make a vid and count out loud while i bang the right arrow key in vdub.

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Yoshi348

2005-04-29 10:59:12 pm

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Ready and willing.

Quote from njahnke:

i just make a vid and count out loud while i bang the right arrow key in vdub.

That strikes me as hilarious for no damn good reason.

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nate

2005-04-29 11:21:07 pm

君だけの

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yeah, i kind of wondered at myself after i posted that. it was highly unintentional. :P

Roxinos:

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Roxinos

2005-05-02 09:24:22 pm

Ya...there is something about it that just invokes the feeling of a Neanderthal(sp) banging on a keyboard...at least for me...

Edit: Oh ya...and what's a screen?

Ryan Ferneau:

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Ryan Ferneau

2005-05-17 06:22:47 am

Quote from Dragonfangs:

Frames are usually used as a very small measure of time. As in "WD was only 10 frames from doing the 0% trick without using frame-by-frame"
It's very rarely used as a longer time, except for quarkers who use it to time their runs more accuretly.

..."Quarkers"? Come on now.

I believe you mean "Quakers".

graveworm:

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graveworm

2005-05-17 07:15:03 am

Quarkers: Some internal(?) word for people who do tool-assisted runs.

DominicanZero:

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DominicanZero

2005-05-17 11:04:27 am

直死の魔眼使い

Quote from Ryan Ferneau:

..."Quarkers"? Come on now.

I believe you mean "Quakers".

No. Quarkers is a term coined here that's used to refer to people who do emu-raped runs, such as the famous Super Mario Bros. 3 in 11 minutes video.

graveworm:

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graveworm

2005-05-17 12:25:55 pm

Welcome to four hours ago.

Ekarderif:

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Ekarderif

2005-05-17 12:34:33 pm

Welcome to tactful posting 101.

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Kejardon

2005-05-17 01:29:25 pm

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Quote from Roxinos:

Oh ya...and what's a screen?

I'm not really sure how it's most commonly used, but when I say screen personally, I'm either refering to a predefined 16x16 block section (a predefined portion of the room, the sections you'd see in SMILE's scrolling editor), or the 16x14 block section you see on screen (including what's hidden behind the status bar, even though you need a code to be able to see behind it).