Niefel AAR: "...Some Say In Ice"

[Peter Ebbesen]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
Dominions II battles already ARE stuttering. In fact, there's basically no animation in a Dominions II battle. Units don't walk, they just kinda teleport-hop. A Dominions II battle is actually a slideshow: There's no real animation, just a "stand" and an "attack" pose for units. As such, most video codecs are probably poorly optimized for this kind of behavior.

The problem is that while this could be easily dealt with by setting an exceedingly low FPS, it is not the whole story. Units hop - but magic effects and arrows use smooth movement. Optimize for units, and you get awful looking magic effects, optimize for the latter, and you end up using a lot of bandwidth.