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perhaps, but would it truly be worth the trouble?

Vaiper wrote:I have no doubt what if whats add realism and fun to game, even if whats a little step (or big), its worth it!

Well then, I suggest you get started because the sooner the better

I'm looking forward to it

sometimes it looks realistic, sometimes not.

Psyrus wrote:There were blood effects added around 0.4/0.5? They were taken out because of an apparent lack of realism relating to hitting someone in body armour and blood spraying out

yeah I thought so as well but well if the hitboxes were improved with 1.5 they should give it another try imo.

Everything is better than "smoke" from the body when its getting hit..

So blood is the way to go

The blood also helps a lot when identifying whether you've hit your enemy or not. The smoke is shown whether you hit a player or not without this, but with this modification you can clearly see the blood splatter when you hit your target.

hobbnob wrote:Thanks for your comments and the embed instructions. chuc himself has commented on the video page saying he and the devs will look into it which is good. 1.5 has improved upon the hitboxes so in theory that shouldn't be a problem anymore

In FH2 they have blood splatters, & the hitboxes are still a problem.

They look good though

hobbnob wrote:the effects files aren't faction specific, you can't make a certain file for insurgents and another for the germans for example. Yes I believe there is a specific file for headshots, but modern soldiers wear helmets

They might wear helmets, but bullets can and do penetrate helmets. It might be enough to stop a stray AK round, but a direct hit is almost positively going to go through.

I must say that this looks awesome, and that I would really like to see this in PR in the future.

Is there a way to make the effect random, like make it so it only shows blood splatters 1 time out of 100000 hits or something? In that way there is more dust then blood and it would actually be rare/special to see blood flying around like it would be rare to see in real life.

Well atm Den it cannot be random, but it only works less than 100 meters away due to drawdistance stuff. The reason it worked longer on my video is because I modified the draw distance.

hobbnob wrote:The blood also helps a lot when identifying whether you've hit your enemy or not. The smoke is shown whether you hit a player or not without this, but with this modification you can clearly see the blood splatter when you hit your target.

But that's kind of the point, if it were easy to see if you made a hit or not
then the tension is removed from the firefight.

I like the idea of having to move in and confirm the kills.

Blood effects were present in 0.65, and it made it too easy IMO to
call a hit or not.

It looks good! But quickly becomes too 'cartoony' if it were possible to
make it occur randomly once in every few thousand shots then it might be ok.

Grossi, your point is valid, and as a result I am currently making my own version of it in the editor. This won't be as visible to the shooter himself, but the exit wound is clear, making it have an effect on friendly forces seeing their man go down. Video coming within the week hopefully, I'll embed it here when I finish.

Well instead of making another thread asking for help I'm going to post here. I've been having trouble making the blood effect.

My aim was to make a small entry wound, almost invisible to the shooter, but to make a large exit wound that goes through the body and exits the other side.

Trouble is that it looks all good in the editor, but ingame the effect sometimes goes sideways, which really doesn't look good. Is there a way to fix this?

modified the effects a bit, heres a video:

lots pretty good

if it can be realisitcally implemented then i do look forward to seeing advances in it


shame you can't go the full hog (well i'm guessing you can't) and have blood stained fatigues of victim and surrounding players. that would be immersive

Yeah I dont' think it's possible to have blood stained fatigues, but at least now it doesn't make firefights easy by clearly showing the player whether they've hit their target or not

Just a quick note, I use the sniper rifle in the blood videos not because I am some uber l33t pwn all sn1p3r but because it offers the best magnification available, which therefore makes the target easier to see for the viewer of the video

Blood trails...?