Vegetation interaction with characters

Post by **matt.b** » 2006-04-23 16:06

Hi, not sure if this is do-able, but since the helicopters can cause vegetation within a certain area of influence to sway (overgrowth certainly, not sure about undergrowth) would it be possible to use this same technique with character models & trigger a slower sway value on vegetation, possibly even something that's velocity-dependant?

Far cry did this to good effect, & I think it's something that would really add to the realism of environments.

the.ultimate.maverick · Post by **the.ultimate.maverick** » 2006-04-23 16:12

I read the title of this thread and started thinking about venus fly traps devouring MEC troops...

six7 · Post by **six7** » 2006-04-23 16:12

wowzer. good idea!

I second this motion

Post by **matt.b** » 2006-04-23 17:43

feed me seymour!

trogdor1289 · Post by **trogdor1289** » 2006-04-23 19:41

I vote for venus flytaps eating snipers and other lone wolf types. Plus MEC and USMC teaming up to defeat attacking flytraps.

Top_Cat_AxJnAt · Post by **Top_Cat_AxJnAt** » 2006-04-23 19:48

EVERY ONE: have a look at the latest crysis movie, it is every thing we want PR to be but it is a little way away in the future, around a year BUT it will/ could be one of the greatest FPS ever, none of this mediocar rubbish like BF2, COD2 and mabey FEAR.

Sorry the reason being is that all plant and object interact with human, it is truely amazing watching trees being cut up by bullets and grass pushed away by a crouching soldier - THE FUTURE - CRYSIS!

trogdor1289 · Post by **trogdor1289** » 2006-04-23 19:54

http://media.pc.ign.com/media/694/694190/vids_1.html
chrysis vid links for you. Plus Chrysis is DX10 the hardware specs to run that must be beyond belief i mean there isn;t even any DX10 cards out right now.

JellyBelly · Post by **JellyBelly** » 2006-04-23 20:12

True, but the company that get's one out just before Crysis will make a ton of cash.

trogdor1289 · Post by **trogdor1289** » 2006-04-23 23:21

ATI an Nvidia will probaly realase DX10 cards at about the same time simply for competions stake at that point it will be Nvidia fanboys Vs. ATI fanboys as to which sells the most.

DangChang · Post by **DangChang** » 2006-04-24 04:10

If I ever get a good enough computer to get this game, I would get it for the mods. Imagine playing with this engine on Iwo Jima or Guadalcanal.

six7 · Post by **six7** » 2006-04-24 04:26

that would be awesome...

Zantetsuken · Post by **Zantetsuken** » 2006-04-24 04:29

as to the original topic of the thread - I would think that with the BF2 engine and that the game encourages a lot of people on servers, it would put quite a load on the client and server machines...

Post by **Rhino** » 2006-04-24 05:11

Zantetsuken wrote:as to the original topic of the thread - I would think that with the BF2 engine and that the game encourages a lot of people on servers, it would put quite a load on the client and server machines...

If you dish out free physic cards too all the people who download and play PRMM im sure we could look into seeing if its 1st, possibal with the BF2 engine. Also then im sure manny more ppl would dwonload this mod

Post by **Hitperson** » 2006-04-24 07:12

'[R-DEV wrote:Rhino']If you dish out free physic cards too all the people who download and play PRMM im sure we could look into seeing if its 1st, possibal with the BF2 engine. Also then im sure manny more ppl would dwonload this mod

YAY free GFX cards. Where is mine??

Post by **Rhino** » 2006-04-24 07:34

'[R-PUB wrote:Hitperson']YAY free GFX cards. Where is mine??

not a GFx card, a physic card: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=140&type=expert&pid=1

But you can also buy all the Devs new GFx cards, Ram, CPUs, mothboards and any other deviecs you think may speed up our work. I could do with a super computer just to do the lightmaps for my maps

Post by **matt.b** » 2006-04-24 10:22

wow, first time i've seen that crysis demo. hope the MP won't be as laggy as far cry was.

Zantetsuken wrote: I would think that with the BF2 engine and that the game encourages a lot of people on servers, it would put quite a load on the client and server machines...

yeah i'm sure it would, but wouldn't it just be a client-side effect? (not that i know anything about this sort of thing). not physics-based, just doing the same thing as the helo's & modifying the vegetation's sway loop within a certain area.

Post by **Rhino** » 2006-04-24 10:52

matt.b wrote:wow, first time i've seen that crysis demo. hope the MP won't be as laggy as far cry was.

yeah i'm sure it would, but wouldn't it just be a client-side effect? (not that i know anything about this sort of thing). not physics-based, just doing the same thing as the helo's & modifying the vegetation's sway loop within a certain area.

not really just a clinet side effect. The server also needs to send the code to every player that the grass is moving in that arear, so they can see it in 3rd person view. the 1st person view is hardly going to see anything compard to the personl looking at the guy going through the grass.

Post by **matt.b** » 2006-04-24 11:29

Ah right, nvm. I really wanted that shaky grass

I thought it might've worked like the ragdoll death effects which are usually client-side only (ie. server sends info to clients that the noob gets pwned in x location from y direction, & the client adds the animation of a guy falling off a rooftop, which vary from player to player). So with grass movement, the only server-side code is player location/velocity, & the client does the rest. Anyway even if this was the case, the grass was probably hard-coded by EA themselves to be stiff just to piss us off so we buy the next installement of Battlefield Gardening 3162

Post by **Rhino** » 2006-04-24 11:40

matt.b wrote:Ah right, nvm. I really wanted that shaky grass I thought it might've worked like the ragdoll death effects which are usually client-side only (ie. server sends info to clients that the noob gets pwned in x location from y direction, & the client adds the animation of a guy falling off a rooftop, which vary from player to player). So with grass movement, the only server-side code is player location/velocity, & the client does the rest. Anyway even if this was the case, the grass was probably hard-coded by EA themselves to be stiff just to piss us off so we buy the next installement of Battlefield Gardening 3162

that would be the same for grass movemt, server sends info to ALL clinets that the guy is there and to play the grass moving effect. Each little bit adds to the strain.

JellyBelly · Post by **JellyBelly** » 2006-04-24 11:49

Now imagine that strain in 64 Steel Thunder...