Footprints/blood in the snow?

[Spoon]

cant you just make the deep snow, water? It takes care of everything if you just make it water but give it a solid snow texture. If the player prones... well he cant breath.
It would work but would be strange for REALLY deep snow becuase then proneing should make you stay above.

 

[SgtH3nry3]

footprints while cool prob wont happen. slow movement through snow maybe possible . but how bout if they just throw in a few frozen horse carcasses and destroyed wagons and trucks. that'll give you a little ostfront feel.

Yeah don't forget destroy buildings and schnapps/vodka bottles near the roads .

 

[Zell]

Spoon, I dunno about you, but I can lay on top of snow and breathe.

I think they should just make a new entity similar to the fluidsurfaceinfo for the snow. They do have access to the engine and all...

 

[SasQuatch]

They do have access to the engine and all...

... says the man who has had access to every level designer tool on earth but never got anywhere

<3

 

[trench]

while you are at it....
we should be able to see our breath in those sub zero temps too.

 

[Stiler]

Speaking of performance issues and such, there's an upcoming mmorpg, Dark and light, which has snow that does most of all these things...

www.darkandlight.com

People leave a "trail" behind them and your character sinks into the snow depending on it's depth, etc.

If they could do that with an mmorpg (where i'd assume performance/latency would be even a more greater issue then just a smaller online game) then I wonder how they take care of all this...

As far as footprints go..they've had those in games for a very long time.

Commandos, metal gear solid, Myth, etc had them.

 

[Avron]

As far as footprints go..they've had those in games for a very long time.

Commandos, metal gear solid, Myth, etc had them.

Duke Nuke'em 3D also ;-)

 

[RedStorm]

Anyone remember Outcast and the snow on Talanzar? Or the marshes on Okasankaar? *wubs Outcast and voxels*

 

[[-project.rattus-]]

Anyone remember Outcast and the snow on Talanzar? Or the marshes on Okasankaar? *wubs Outcast and voxels*

Yeah, I really dug that game.. need to see if I got it somewhere lying around. Never happend to play it to the end though...

 

[SgtH3nry3]

I know a possibility. But yet again it needs a decent physics...
You could give the humans superbouyancy.
Making them sink just a little...

Replace the water walking sounds with snow walking sounds, delete the water pixelshaders, replace the water texture with a snow texture.

 

[Zell]

But then they'd bob up and down really quickly.

 

[RedStorm]

Yeah, I really dug that game.. need to see if I got it somewhere lying around. Never happend to play it to the end though...

You never finished it?! My dear friend, the ending of that game was just... the best/most emotional game ending ever... not giving anything away. Find the Outcast CD and play the "Heaven on Adelpha" song... Outcast is so high on my list of favourite games ever, it's not even funny. Can you say, "Best. Game. Music. Ever."?

 

[Stiler]

Really wish they would have made a new outcast , even if it was a seperate game from the original.

Just no voxels though .

 

[RedStorm]

Really wish they would have made a new outcast , even if it was a seperate game from the original.

Just no voxels though .

Yeah, too bad they cancelled that sequel a few months ago... it was looking so good as well. And what're you on about about the voxels? Graphically, the game looked amazing for its time and it still looks good, all because of the amazing things they could do with voxels. They're beautiful if you ask me.

 

[Donut]

And of your arm gets shot off...it could like drag on the ground and slow you down...

No, no! It would crawl around, looking for Nazis to strangle!.... BTW, are we off topic yet?