Dust

Armand61685 · Post by **Armand61685** » 2005-12-04 09:31

As we know, firefights are very chaotic and intense. And i think dust should be thrown up and linger when bullets hit the dirt ground or a dusty old wall.

Can this be done? A la FEAR, or to some extent of that.

BTW the hotfix is awesome, and I think dust with the sounds would be amaazing!

Post by **BlakeJr** » 2005-12-04 09:46

If you want your game one frame per every 2 to 3 seconds that is doable.
We played a bit with smokeeffects early on with PRMM.01 (internal releases actually) and had some seriously beautiful smoke. (smoke, dust same thing different name

)
The major drawback is that your framrate will plummet! It WILL drop into the singledigit range unless you have a monster machine.

Armand61685 · Post by **Armand61685** » 2005-12-04 10:18

hmm can you use very very low detail low res smoke? It doesn't have to be high-graphical. Just SOME sort of dust.

Post by **requiem** » 2005-12-04 10:21

Not possible without making something which is the true definition of ugly

Why?! · Post by **Why?!** » 2005-12-04 15:35

DUDE!!! I was just going to post the same thing.

I was just going to make a new topic. I had updated the effects made them slightly more realistic and even better looking. I also got around to adding a blood hit effect. As far as framerates go, it didn't effect them that much. If your running on high already, it wont be a big deal. Medium was the only trouble spot, but it was still far from unplayable. Low however will cause problems as it disables a lot of the smoke, giving players on low an advantage. That's probably the thing that screw this mod over. Oh well, it was great fun to make and I really enjoy playing this with bots.

Some people on this forum may remember this:
Note: These are old pictures, the latest version is nowhere near as overdone.

Post by **BlakeJr** » 2005-12-04 16:11

Smoke DOES affect framerate.
Whenever I look at a smoke or dustcloud my framerate takes an expresselevator to the basement. Especially in those first early internal releases of .01.

How much of a hit it makes on anyones PC is very different I guess, but it does affect your framerate. And if you have a PC that is barely making the minimum requirement I would guess the drop would be severe.

I am not suggesting we make the mod to dit on a machine with the lowest specs but neither am I going to ask for all the stops being pulled out either.

USAF-Marshall · Post by **USAF-Marshall** » 2005-12-05 00:50

DUst would be cool, would be nice to see dust storms on some maps that make close combat inevitable unless you are just spraying into the clouds. WOuld remove alot of the Snipers, but would also help simulate bad conditions in RL battles in Iraq

Armand61685 · Post by **Armand61685** » 2005-12-05 00:52

ya, but let's take it one step at a time, lol.

Cerberus · Post by **Cerberus** » 2005-12-05 01:07

As much as I'd love to see a higher amount of dust implemented, the smoke grenades cause enough lag as it is