Entry 195

A character's hit, its walk and its root as the original's; damage to characters posted

2026-10-1731mplay

The rest of a character's hit and the rest of its body follow the original. Mr. Friend now takes a ball, staggers, loses his health and chases on, and the ball rolls, on the original's place every frame.

Mode 1's wait. At its animation's event 0x2000 (and not for 1776), mode 1 waits 300 + (rand & 3) x 300 dt (+0x69c, by 0x8002fb7c) with no body update at all. This is in npc::step before the step, as Npc::wait_left.

Mr. Friend's hits. His callbacks (0x800833a4 for a kick, 0x800834b0 for a thing's touch) give his line, ask the stagger (logical 8 at 2048, table state 30), and put him in mode 1 with the callbacks off until it ends (Npc::staggered). This is now the follower's own cycle (Bite::Recover). The port used to keep its own Mode::Hit timer.

Damage to a character. 0x800780ac with a target of object flag 0x4000 posts the target. The event (0x80077864) takes its health straight down at the next frame's start; with no such target it takes the player's. Game::post_npc_damage queues it. A thrown thing therefore staggers Mr. Friend at once and costs him its +0x6d a frame later. When mode 1 finds his health at 0, he dies (mode 10).

Walking and running. A character (object flag 0x4000) walks (logical 1) under the fifth speed of its table row (0x80059008, 0x800590d4: 17, or 11 in the slow row) and runs from it. The port ran it at any speed.

The root, across and up.

• Another body than the player's moves by its root keys scaled by (hierarchy +0x4c << 12) / -561 (0x80055904), each toward zero, before the step's share is taken.
• A state whose word has 32 also moves it across. Mr. Friend's stagger steps him back 22, 13 a frame.
• The body takes that move after its stick, so the steer reads the place before it.
• The height (RootCurve) is now in these integers, with the player's first-frame blend, base + (key - base) frac. It was a float scale and blend, a unit off at times.

The aim at a character takes its height as its +0x1c has it, with its root. That was the last unit in the ball's launch.

Oracle. level_9_ball_at_friend_as_the_original: Tommy picks up ball 2 and throws it at Mr. Friend, who comes for him. Given the original's Friend once (sync_friend: place, animation, the logical animation it was asked as, health, mode), it checks every frame:

• the ball's places for all 77 frames of the roll;
• Friend's tracks, place, height, heading and health;
• Tommy's place and tracks;
• the camera.

All 15 scripts pass.