writeup on the rationale behind it: https://www.pramit.gg/post/i-made-an-aim-trainer
"I felt like I may be uniquely equipped to make this problem much more complicated than it needed to be."
Worth it!
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#32does it separate flick errors from tracking errors, or is it just angular delta over time? valorant aim usually feels dominated by confidence-to-fire more than path smoothness.
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#34Random note, the biggest single thing you can do to improve your aim is to crank down your sensitivity and learn to strafe with the target rather than try to track with the mouse. The second biggest thing you can do is stop trying to exactly track them, and instead try to predict their strafe patterns based on their surroundings so you can place shots where they're likely to be, at least for any weapon with a travel time.
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#35In case anyone likes to play Quake with a gamepad I recently made this add-on which adds Dark Soul III style target lock. (Click L3 to toggle. Breaking line of sight breaks the target lock.)
https://www.slipseer.com/index.php?resources/textless-hud.58...
Some might consider this "cheating" but in my opinion aiming with a mouse is so much easier that using a mouse against players using gamepads more resembles cheating.
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#36Very cool, would you open source the code? did you start this from scratch?
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#37This is really cool! The calibrate part could be easier to tweak, so I can dial in what a 360 is on my system, instead of having to go back back next next try, and then I can't re-calibrate again? Or at least, it's not obvious where to change those settings.
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#38In case anyone likes to play Quake with a gamepad I recently made this add-on which adds Dark Soul III style target lock. (Click L3 to toggle. Breaking line of sight breaks the target lock.) https://www.slipseer.com/index.php?resources/textless-hud.58... Some might consider this "cheating" but in my opinion aiming with a mouse is so much easier that using a mouse against players using gamepads more resembles cheating…
I used to play q3l competitively and I can’t imagine trying to get any real results using a gamepad without help. That’s a neat idea.
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#39Random note, the biggest single thing you can do to improve your aim is to crank down your sensitivity and learn to strafe with the target rather than try to track with the mouse. The second biggest thing you can do is stop trying to exactly track them, and instead try to predict their strafe patterns based on their surroundings so you can place shots where they're likely to be, at least for any weapon with a travel…
These are great suggestions. It’s what I see pros doing, just really hard to get there.
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#40Neat project. I wonder how a small model could interpret movement data to provide personalized improvement suggestions e.g. "you're weaker targeting left than right, but only under these conditions"