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WritePackedIntDelta diff is negative when expecting positive.

Discussion in 'Unity Transport' started by PolarTron, Feb 13, 2022.

  1. PolarTron

    PolarTron

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    Let's say I have a value 10 and a baseline of 4. I expect the diff between these two to be 6 but the calculation of the diff makes it -6.

    Code (CSharp):
    1. int diff = (int)(baseline - value);
    Is this intended? Is it better for compression or something?
     
    PolarTron, Feb 13, 2022
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  2. simon-lemay-unity

    simon-lemay-unity

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    Good question! I'm not sure what the original rationale was for this choice, but my understanding of the code is that ultimately it shouldn't matter too much since negative values are interleaved with positive ones in the packed representation of integers (sequence is 0, -1, 1, -2, 2...).

    In your example, -6 ends up being stored in the stream as unsigned integer 11, whereas positive 6 would end up being stored as unsigned integer 12.
     
    simon-lemay-unity, Feb 14, 2022
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