Momentum Mod - August 2017 Development Update and News

Hello objects with mass and velocity! … *cough* ... You're all long overdue for an update from the team, and I bet you all thought we were dead (again!) Rest assured, even though it's been 8 (EIGHT!) months since our last update, we are not dead! We’ve made some large changes to the workflow for developing the mod. Thanks to Gocnak’s personal sacrifice of blood, sweat, tears, and $100, the mod is now officially on Steam Direct (but not released yet, read below)!...

August 21, 2017

0.5.0-prealpha release

It’s that time again! The Momentum Mod team has been hard at work on the latest update, 0.5.0-prealpha. 0.5.0 is an incremental update that overhauls many UI elements in the main menu as well as fixing some glaring issues with the previous builds. By far the largest change is the new main menu design, which is based off of NicolasDe’s GameUI2 from his mod Project-9. Huge thanks go to Nicolas for letting us use GameUI2 in Momentum Mod....

July 14, 2016

How the Momentum Mod timer works (how to get a time with 6 digits of precision on a 100 tick server)

As many bhoppers and surfers are aware, the smallest interval of time that can be calculated by a Source Engine server is the interval between two ticks, proportional to the tickrate set by the server owner. The server tickrate is just the server’s ”framerate” for simulating movement, physics, and other game logic. Note: bhop and kz servers use 100 tickrate, and surf servers use 66 tickrate. This means every tick takes 0....

June 19, 2016