User:1Zulu

About me
Trying to clean up the pages about Chinese PvZ games.

To-do list: implementing changes from this thread: Merging and deleting pages for All-Stars content

Here is a zombie dressed as a rabbit:



Radii: 12 (96); 185 (1024); 27 (150)

OBB Patcher (current version: v0.05)
See: OBBPatcher / TextureUnpacker

Please read the instructions before asking me questions!

For instructions on how to edit the file itself, read this guide: User:Ballistic Planet/CTG Hacking Guide

Garbage in, garbage out
Enlarging pictures that had terrible picture quality to begin with does nothing to improve their quality. It just makes them look worse. This is known in computer science as "garbage in, garbage out" and can also be described by the colloquial expression "putting lipstick on a pig."

The better way to handle this is to take decent pictures to begin with, so there's no need to do this kind of stuff. I mean, how hard is this?

This problem is especially pervasive in the Chinese pages. I leave for a while, come back and every picture of Chinese content has potato quality. How is this possible?

/endrant

its vs it's
"it's" is a contraction of "it is" or "it has," eg:


 * It's raining outside (= It is raining outside)
 * It's been a pleasure (= It has been a pleasure)

"its" is a possessive pronoun, indicating possession of/relationship to something:


 * My pet parakeet is green. Its favorite food is corn. (= the parakeet's favorite food is corn)
 * The new world hasn't been released yet, but its internal name is "Lost City" (= the new world's internal name is "Lost City")

Internal stuff
PvZ uses Cafeteria Black for most of their in-game stuff, and Burbank Big Regular Bold for ads

Internal plant names

Internal zombie names

Inner workings of PvZ2

PvZ2's Health System
Regular zombies have 10 HP, right? WRONG! Regular zombies have 13.5 HP (assuming 1 HP = 1 pea's worth of damage)

However, they have a "critical point" at 9 HP. What is this critical point business? Well, it's a point after which the next shot will cause the zombie's HP drops rapidly to zero (at a rate of 3 HP/sec), but it is still alive to the game. This means a zombie who's taken 10 shots is still alive for a couple of seconds. Even though it can no longer damage your plants, it will still absorb shots.

This is why zombies who appear dead (lost their head) are still attacked by plants. Plants don't attack dead zombies. Internally, a zombie without its head is not dead yet.

Discussion Threads
LC: #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #18 #19 #20

NMT: #0 #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12

Timetables
* Projected


 * Average between worlds: 73 days
 * Average between parts: 39 days

* Projected date

Note: Official releases used to be on Thursdays (2.0 until 2.4.1); but every major update since DA has been released on a Tuesday.