1st person view

[Bikerdude]

Morning

 

Ive just enabled player shadow, and for the most part it look cool, until the player is right next to a light source. The shadow was obviously done by the tdm team, have any player bodywork been built (arms, torso, legs) - this would then make the player shadow perfect as it would have something to link to in 1st person view.

 

I dont suppose there is a way to include my autoexec file with the arg that enables player shadow, is it as simple as included an autoexec.cfg file in the pk4 file..?

 

Edited January 10, 2010 by Bikerdude

[etdarkb]

edit DoomConfig.cfg, change the line `seta g_showPlayerShadow' to `seta g_showPlayerShadow "1"'.

[Crispy]

Player shadow is not supported, and body awareness is not planned. Getting either to work properly would take a lot of animation work. For example, consider TDM's advanced movement, like mantling onto surfaces of arbitrary height. You can't have a single animation for that. It wouldn't be impossible to animate but it would take a lot of very careful tweaking.

 

Body awareness is very tricky to get right; just look at Thief 3 to see why. I'm sure nobody want's TDM's smooth movement to become that clunky overnight. Of course it can and has been done really well (Mirror's Edge being the obvious example), but you need significant time and resources which we just don't have.