Adventure map, AI switches between heroes too fast

[Branikolog]

AI has multiple heroes. One of them stands close to a gold pile (a hero close to the left edge) while AI turn starts with another hero(In center).
A hero in center captures Alchemist Lab, then AI switches to the left hero, collects gold pile and returns back to the first hero. But this happens sooo fast, so I even couldn't notice anything. The Only thing I've noticed is that after first hero captures Alchemist Lab one frame on a screen changes to something different (looks like one frame of game was corrupted). So that's why I started investigating this issue.
O_O.zip
(This happens not always, so try to reload and end turn a few times: you will notice something on a screen, while AI hero captured Alchemist Lab)
This looks not good. I think we should either play animation of gold pile (and any other resource or artifact) being disappeared after AI hero took it.
Or we can try to force the game to make a little pause while switching between different heroes. (~0.5-1 sec or smth like that) so this would prevent screen from being redrawn for 1/60sec for focusing on another hero and returning back to the first one.

[LeHerosInconnu]

Here are two videos to show the problems:

Captured with OBS Studio:

2021-03-25.13-05-56.mp4

Video capture of the monitor:
I will delete the file in 30 days (file about 82MB).
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hVHjaBTiaM8KufCD7GZg9SThIAPiAmKe/view?usp=sharing

The pause between the heroes' animations is not necessarily needed.
We can notice that the animation of the hero's movement starts before the screen is centered on the hero.
That's why we don't see the hero of the green player near the obelisk picking up the Gold pile.

First transition (video capture of the monitor):
The hero has already started his movement.

Second transition (video capture of the monitor):
The hero has already picked up the pile of Gold.

Hero animation already started (from both videos):

Glitch when the hero captures the Alchemist Lab (video capture of the monitor):

The hero seems to go backwards (from OBS Studio):

Also I suspect that the animation of the previous hero is not yet finished when the animation of the next hero starts.
Related issue: #2169

[LeHerosInconnu]

@Branikolog.

@LeHerosInconnu
Have you Ever saw AI collect more than 10-15 items during its turn? :D

All possibilities should be considered. :)

Actually, the lacking of this animation for me personally looks a bit weird. When AI hero captures a mine, with a few piles of resources nearby and then collects these resources standing in one place it looks not very well for me. It looks like hero starts spinning in a single place and resources disappear in less than a second.
In H3 during AI turn we can watch that vanishing items on a world map with normal speed. I just want something same... A bit faster, probably. (As in H3 it's like ~0.7sec animation)

In the original game, the AI turn (calculations) is very fast, almost instantaneous, and the hero movement animations are also fast, at most a few seconds and that even at the slowest animation speed.
I wouldn't want to wait more than a few seconds all together during the AI turn.
This works well for me in the original game.
The game should remain very fast, that is part of the fun of playing Heroes 2.

[Branikolog]

I'd prefer to watch a little pause for vanishing of resources. Now it seems to disappear in a single frame so I can't even notice what type of resource AI gathered...

[LeHerosInconnu]

@Branikolog.

I'd prefer to watch a little pause for vanishing of resources. Now it seems to disappear in a single frame so I can't even notice what type of resource AI gathered...

There are already slower animation speeds for AI heroes that allow the player to see what the opposing heroes are doing more quietly.
Isn't it enough?

[Branikolog]

At lower speed it keeps spinning all the same. )

[LeHerosInconnu]

@Branikolog.

At lower speed it keeps spinning all the same. )

Maybe this could be added but only for the slowest animation speed for AI heroes?
(Or as an option, as a last resort.)

[LeHerosInconnu]

I just observed the same phenomenon with version 1.0.1 6678.

The first purple hero captures the alchemist lab, the other purple hero to the south captures the treasure chest, the first purple hero moves away from the alchemist lab, but it happens so quickly that it looks like there is a graphic glitch (the treasure chest capture is not visible).

A delay should be added when the game switches from one hero to another (just after the game moves to the next hero and therefore before the hero's action starts).

In fheroes2:

2023-02-25.19-58-27.mp4

Here is the save file:
Graphic glitch ai turn 01.zip

Another example, where we don't have time to see that the teleporting purple hero captures an artifact and a bunch of resources next to the wandering group of titans.

In fheroes2:

2023-02-25.20-25-21.mp4

Here is the save file:
Quick ai hero 01.zip

[LeHerosInconnu]

Another example.
In this one, Ergon attacks Blackburn, and the screen is not positioned on the scene of the action before the defeat window appears.

In fheroes2:

2023-02-27.12-00-59.mp4

Here is the save file (just end the turn):
Quick AI attack castle 01.zip