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[CSGO] DesiredTimescale UserMsg

Found this usermsg called DesiredTimescale:

PHP Code:


		
			
message CCSUsrMsg_DesiredTimescale {
    optional float desired_timescale = 1;
    optional float duration_realtime_sec = 2;
    optional int32 interpolator_type = 3;
    optional float start_blend_time = 4;
}

I tested it out with this code:

PHP Code:


		
			
Handle msg = StartMessageOne( "DesiredTimescale", client );
if( msg != INVALID_HANDLE )
{
    PrintToServer( "Successfully found DesiredTimescale UserMsg" );
    
    Protobuf pb = UserMessageToProtobuf( msg );
    
    pb.SetFloat( "desired_timescale", 0.5 );
    pb.SetFloat( "duration_realtime_sec", 1.0 );
    pb.SetInt( "interpolator_type", g_InterpType );
    pb.SetFloat( "start_blend_time", 0.5 );
    
    EndMessage()
    
    PrintToServer( "******* Interp. type: %i ********", gI_InterpType );
    g_InterpType++;
}

On testing it, it seems to work like host_timescale does, and has the same issues with laggines/stuttering that host_timescale does when set on a single client. I was hoping to see if anyone knew what these settings do, and how they affect the timescale. I'm hoping that interpolator_type (or possibly one of the other settings) might be a fix to the stuttering issue, so that's really the focus of the question, from my testing I haven't found any values that make any significant difference and I don't really understand what they do.

If you want to see the what stuttering issue is here's a video showcasing it (only first ~15s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS_2TsTenyo

Re: [CSGO] DesiredTimescale UserMsg

So from testing out I think I've figured out what most of the parameters are and what they do. Wasn't exactly what I was looking for but I'll write it out anyway in case anyone wants this effect and struggles to find any info on it like I did.

Basically it gradually takes clients from their current timescale to the desired timescale (hence the name)

desired_timescale - the desired timescale, pretty self explanatory

duration_realtime_sec - the time in seconds that this change should happen over. e.g. curr timescale is 1.0, desired is 0.1, duration_realtime_sec is 5.0, it will take 5s to go from timescale of 1 to 0.1

interpolator_type - I haven't noticed any major changes from playing with this value but I'm guessing that it uses these to decide how to interpolate between current timescale to desired timescale

start_blend_time - The delay in seconds (real time) before it starts the process of changing timescale

If you're interested in how it does this take a look at https://mxr.alliedmods.net/hl2sdk-cs..._shared.cpp#92 and https://mxr.alliedmods.net/hl2sdk-cs...shared.cpp#127