Gore - bodies that burst open

[Vaecrius]

So for the longest time I've been playing with all the gore settings set to minimal thinking I'd get a framerate boost.

Now that I've got things set roughly the way they were meant to be seen, I can't help but notice that when something is gibbed (EDIT: but not completely shattered into a bazillion tiny pieces also kudos to TWI for adding literal guts to those particular gibs) it's always getting appendages blown off, while the trunk is intact (if possibly burned).

While the effect is neat (and spectating and watching the production of the burned, mindlessly twitching bloat torso that a second or three ago used to be just this ugly fat dude talking about food is honestly one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen in a game) I can't help but wonder what KF would be like if monsters' bodies could actually explode (cf. the clearly visible ribcage in Doom's gib sprites). Would it slow things down a lot to have those extra meshes, or is there some other reason (e.g., the ragdoll physics) that the priority seems to be on severing stuff?

 

[C_Gibby]

if monsters' bodies could actually explode (cf. the clearly visible ribcage in Doom's gib sprites).

I'd like to see it.

How exactly do they create these "gore" layers, anyway?

 

[YoYoBatty]

Or how about screen bloody?

 

[C_Gibby]

Or how about screen bloody?

You won't be able to see

 

[vealck]

How exactly do they create these "gore" layers, anyway?

On gibbing, character model becomes invisible and several independent models of chunks of meat are spawned, with some velocity and vector depending on killing shot characteristics. Also, gibs were usually rendering bloody 'smoke trail' in their wake. At least that was the case in early Quake and Unreal series.

 

[YoYoBatty]

You won't be able to see

But it fades away within 2 or 3 seconds of appearing. One or the other, if not 1 second.

 

[_Duke_]

I don't think any player would be opposed to extra gore, although it'd be a lot of new work for Tripwire and I wonder how it would affect performance.

 

[YoYoBatty]

I don't think any player would be opposed to extra gore, although it'd be a lot of new work for Tripwire and I wonder how it would affect performance.

Not much work but may effect performance a little, maybe.

 

[rickyhorror]

Or how about screen bloody?

Yes, please.
Make, now.

 

[human_gs]

I'm all for popping zeds open. Would really improve the berserker. It would also be cool to have a bloody screen, but just like little drops of blood gta vice city style so you would still be able to see.

 

[Vaecrius]

But it fades away within 2 or 3 seconds of appearing. One or the other, if not 1 second.

You're assuming that it would stop appearing at some point before the zedcount hits zero. ^^;

EDIT:^^;

 

[folken53]

But it fades away within 2 or 3 seconds of appearing. One or the other, if not 1 second.

Wouldnt it be epic if they made it so when you got blood splattered over your visor / screen, you pressed a button and you saw a sleeve come up and quickly wipe it off, would be so epic

 

[Deadbolt]

Wouldnt it be epic if they made it so when you got blood splattered over your visor / screen, you pressed a button and you saw a sleeve come up and quickly wipe it off, would be so epic

it'd be awesome if u were playing as police constable briar and when u pressed that button little windshield wipers came out. lolol :IS2:

 

[nath2009uk]

Bullet holes that actually appeared on zeds, please.

 

[C_Gibby]

it'd be awesome if u were playing as police constable briar and when u pressed that button little windshield wipers came out. lolol :IS2:

 

[WhiteTigerShiro]

You won't be able to see

Left 4 Dead disagrees with you.

 

[Sgt.Lobster]

Make the character wipe with the sleeve.. NAO!

Well.. first you would need the blood.

 

[Vaecrius]

Well, you could do the animation first... some of those locales look like they'd be really hot and muggy and given what these guys are wearing I'm kinda surprised there aren't wet squishing noises with the footsteps from the sweat alone. D: