New PM feature:Player editor

[Licoaldo]

A character of mine now serves just like Hewitt Awesome, awesome, awesome!

[Licoaldo]

And changing the serve style changes the behavior of the character in general. Well not behavior exactly but positioning and stuff.

If you choose Sampras' serve style (#2 I think) your character will be waiting for the opponent serve, crouched and swinging the racquet from the right to the left slowly, just like the american.

I had a character of mine modified to Hewitt's (#1) and he has Hewitt's same movements as well. Awaits for the serve with the legs open wide and very inclined forward.

[KoopaxITST]

Thanks for trying it, Licoaldo! Style 3 should be the 'Grosjean' serve, and 4 will be 'Gambill's (not that I remember it). Style 0 is used by Chang, amongst others. Not sure if '5' has any meaning, probably not.

Does it have any effect on serve speed or placement? I guess it's easier to categorically answer this question now.

[Licoaldo]

No, no boosts on anything. Only the visual effect, which is awesome heheh

But, since Gambill's style, like the #5 (its that one that looks like Ivanisevic's) and Sampras' (#2) are slower moves, as in, the movement is much wider, you have more time for aiming than compared to Hewitt's one for example, which is too fast to aim well.

[KoopaxITST]

Sorry if you got a mail saying 'technical problem', can't do it'- probably down to the bug I added yesterday. Should be ok now, so try and upload again if you don't have a mail

[Licoaldo]

I wonder, can characters altered to those blocked service styles be used on ITST matches?

[ValdisITST]

Cool !!! My player has now Gambill's serve style. I agree with Licoaldo, some serve styles give you more or less timing. But the serve speed doesn't change.

Thanks koopax

[Q. Reese]

Hello,

It is ironic, isn't it? We can solve the serve style crisis; but, we cannot solve the power player's slower serve itself (compared to a real 3 star serve for a defense and technician player).

It is a perplexing paradox in itself . . .; one that tries the mind's true identity.

In time, my friends. In due time . . .

,

[ValdisITST]

Hehe Q. Reese you are right

I think the power skill gives you more power that creating a player with power as natural talent. That is the only possible answer. It's like volley.
Is better creating a player with 4 stars for volley and the volley skill
than one with only the 5 stars. Strange, isn't it??

Well, me must go on with that features

[KoopaxITST]

I suspect Valdis is correct (and this way makes sense to me). If anyone has a Power player with the Power skill, I'd be curious to see what happens.

[ValdisITST]

Hey koopax i have one !!! and it doesn't make a great change... the serve doesn't increase, only the safe shots are a bit more powerful

I have also another question... Does a powerful player with speed as second skill move faster than one with defense as natural talent ??

Hehe i think there are a lot of this situations if we investigate more....

[Q. Reese]

Hello,

Yes. My brother has a power player with speed. He runs faster than my defense play; however, I can cream my shots better than he can (it is like when you hit the risk shot speed for my flats and topspins).

Not bad . . . eh?

,

[ValdisITST]

Really interesting.....

And what happens with the technician players?? Does a defense or powerful player with precision and angle as skills hit more accurate and angled shots??

Hehe.... We must call Sherlock Holmes.... It's not so elemental, Watson

Regards,

[Licoaldo]

I wonder if it's possible to edit a character's A.I.?
Sometimes I create awesome net players but the PC plays him as a baseliner Is there a way to make him play like Sampras or something?

[Q. Reese]

Hello,

The best way we can do that is by "hacking" the ITZ meter for the computer players. Sampras has a way of getting AND MAINTAINING it at VERY VERY VERY high levels.

This is another idea just for computer players (It seems like the computer characters play with half sense when their ITZ meter is near full).

Hehe,