Quick Question About Bodies

[DopeFishhh]

In doom 3 and even more disapointingly in quake 4 the bodies disapear in a flash of fire or some green shit once they've been killed.

 

I'm assuming you can stop this from happening, but in doing that will it kick up the rendering requirements?

[oDDity]

We've already done it, but unless you're piling the bodies up in huge heaps, I doubt it'll make much difference to framerates.

It does mean the ragdolls have to be pretty good though, since in doom you only get a beief glimse of them before they disappear, while in thing game you get to toss them around in different positions.

[FishFace]

I hope you're using the SpinelessDoll version of ragdoll.

[Domarius]

I don't know what wierd rules the T3 ragdoll uses, but the Doom3 ragdolls seem to fall realistically every time.

[DopeFishhh]

What i would have loved to have seen in T3 is the body screaming when it doubles over in the way bodies aren't meant to double over.

[oDDity]

Ragdolls are not realistic. You have to have an initial death animation which leads into the ragdoll taking over. People tend not to die instantly on missile impact and go totally limp like they just had a blackout.

[OrbWeaver]

What i would have loved to have seen in T3 is the body screaming when it doubles over in the way bodies aren't meant to double over.

 

Why? Dead or unconscious bodies don't scream in real life.

 

It would have been better to get the animations right as oDDity points out, rather than masking their deficiencies by sacrificing yet more realism.

[New Horizon]

There are death animations in T3, they just don't always play. I've messed around trying to find a way to give them priority over ragdolling but it doesn't seem to work. Meh.

[bob_arctor]

Nice.

 

Never mind I'll just play the dark mod. With its lovely dirty bricks.

[Macsen]

Another question about bodies: Where do babies come from?

[Maximius]

And whats all this business with the belly button? Damned thing never works as far as I can tell anyway....

[Macsen]

And whats all this business with the belly button? Damned thing never works as far as I can tell anyway....

 

Pressing it causes a 'kick me' sign to emerge out the back of your head. That's my understanding anyway.

[Maximius]

Pressing it causes a 'kick me' sign to emerge out the back of your head. That's my understanding anyway.

 

 

No, wait, I got it, it actually unscrews, wait a second, SHIT!

 

 

 

 

..... my ass fell off....

Edited November 7, 2005 by Maximius

[bardic]

Hmm, a little off-topic. There have never been any pregnant women in Thief, and the only children are in Dedx. I think without birth control you would at least have a few barmaids, and the odd noblewoman who are pregnant. And we all know how easily babies wake up, a true test for a thief to steal something in the babies room.

 

And a little morbid. If you are only allowed 1 kill in a mission, and you kill a pregnant woman, do you lose the mission 5-10 minutes after killing her?

Edited November 7, 2005 by bardic

[oDDity]

IF you were ony allowed one kill in a mission, and you killed a pregnant women, you'd actually have killed two people, and there would end the mission.

[Vadrosaul]

IF you were ony allowed one kill in a mission, and you killed a pregnant women, you'd actually have killed two people, and there would end the mission.

I sense a pro-life/pro-choice debate starting

[Macsen]

IF you were ony allowed one kill in a mission, and you killed a pregnant women, you'd actually have killed two people, and there would end the mission.

 

But with the new 'rape simulator' you can built up what we call 'anti-kills'...

[Dram]

aargh...it hurts...another topic gone waaay of course

 

meh, not my topic, so i get to watch the fun MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[bardic]

'anti-kills'

 

Man, that had me laughing for a good long while.

 

Also, I put a delay in there because the baby would take longer to die, and the "Cesarean Arrow" would have to be found and used to avoid the mission failure.

[oDDity]

But with the new 'rape simulator' you can built up what we call 'anti-kills'...

 

The thief giveth and the thief taketh away.

[Fingernail]

we need a T shirt with the slogan

 

THIEVES DO IT WITHOUT YOU EVEN NOTICING

also they leave no trace so good luck to the police

[AtariThief]

"Hey you... stop... you... Taffer!"

<GRIN>

[Dram]

we need a T shirt with the slogan

 

THIEVES DO IT WITHOUT YOU EVEN NOTICING

also they leave no trace so good luck to the police

 

yes, oDD's life is a sad story...