ComboVid.com – Advanced SF4: All About Dummies

by Keits on June 3rd, 2011 at 7:46 pm

Anyone who has practiced a combo in Street Fighter IV and then tried it on Blanka can tell you, the character you’re hitting is very important. Very few of the combos in Maj’s incredible TACV’s work fully on more than one or two characters, beacuse each dummy has unique quirks.

In older Capcom games, a dummy’s vulnerable area consists of invisible rectangles that loosely follow the sprites displayed on the screen. Using a hitbox viewer to peek under the hood, we can see the game engine handling these combat interactions. Red boxes represent attacks and blue boxes represent vulnerable spaces.

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akumous

You’re overestimated the comprehensive level of the mass community…the Dummies strategy guide is a little too complicated for the masses so it is best to downgrade it for the “retarded” edition so they can understand, somewhat.
- Veserius
  
  That guide is pretty much as straight forward as you can get, and it isn’t like aspiring combo makers are idiots.
WINBACK

Pretty sure most people will click on this article simply because it’s advertised with an in-game screenshot of Balrog checking out Chun’s ass.
- error1
  
  that was the plan
Abbel

very interesting! i had no idea these little pieces of animation could effect your game that much. Good read!
Good Game Player

great for combo video makers, terrible for players.
Good Game Player

^^^ before someone jumps on me, i was referring to the whole “hitboxes move around” thing. it allows combo video makers to find weird and creative setups, but for actually playing the game it feels sloppy and bad.
- CYBORG COP
  
  This. I prefer how in older games the hurtboxes were more consistent. It’s one of the problems with the hitboxes in SF4.