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sparhawk

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I just wanted to post this because I just remembered how strange this felt to me when I played T3. So PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE don' t put the locks right in the middle of the door. It looks of for some doors, but mostly ist just looks weird and contreived.

 

Just needed to put this of my mind. :)

Gerhard

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I imagine it was a solution to the practical problem of the player clipping a wall while picking if the locks were to one side.

I rather think that this was a concession to the XBox. As the resolution is not as good on TV set as on a PC monitor I could imagine that they had to made the locks more visible by this. Especially when in third person mode.

Gerhard

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I didn't think much of them either, although there WERE medeival doors with locks in the center. I'd prefer we stuck to the lock by the door. Our animation team will have to take a look at how that will work, of course. Actually, if we use the T3 style lockpicking mode, then we could pick locks at virutally any level. We wouldn't have to worry too much about clipping if we don't use 3rd person view.

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I much prefer the T2 style of lockpicking.

Mechanics of lockpicking is discussed here http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showforum=14

and here http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=170.

 

This thread is actualy only about the position of the locks. Or did you mean that? Not sure about this.

Gerhard

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