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Who needs .plan files?
Posted By: Forensic <boyd@wam.umd.edu>Date: 11/11/00 8:41 a.m.

In Response To: Good things and bad things... (Troy Lawlor)

> Anybody find mention of limb-specific damage animations a little
> disappointing? Sure, they're better then just having a single
> pain animation, but I was sort've hoping the IK and physics
> systems would extend into this area. If you shoot them in the
> arm from a certain direction, wouldn't it be hella cool if their
> arms and bodies were thrown back in that direction, affected in
> the exact point at which you shot them?

I asked Matt about this once before when the E3 trailer came out. He said that IK was not linked to death animations but they were doing some preliminary work in this area. I don't know what this latest update means in that regard. Matt?

> The idea of waves crashing gets me pretty exciting. As long as
> there are particles that is. Can't do without particles! As far
> as overhangs and caves... well, that sounds more like stuff that
> the old engine was supposed to be able to do. Seems good anyway.
> If caves and overhangs aren't in Halo(we can put them there if
> we want to)... well then surely Bungie's special stash needs to
> be taken away from them.

The thing is, everyone's been assuming that Halo's built on some kind of heightmapping dealie like Myth was. And in Myth, this meant that making terrain over terrain was an absolute and total no-no. You might as well ask your computer to divide by zero. There was some speculation on the forums as to how it could be faked with portals and structures, and this was even done to a very limited extent in Myth. (I'm thinking specifically of the tunnel at the end of the fourth level and suchlike. You couldn't do anything with it, but it was a convincing illusion.) But now it sounds like they've integrated it more into the engine so it's relatively easy to do. This is good. Oh yeah, and after the shoreline in the E-3 trailer, I'm all in favor of the crashing waves.

To save space, here are a few of my own comments.

>One of the weapon ideas currently being discussed is suspiciously similar
>to a suggestion made on this very forum in days past. :-)

Even if you only took into account the number of crack-induced suggestions I've personally put up on this forum, this would still be the least helpful Halo comment in the entire universe. :)

> Interesting to hear the artists explain how the Covenant use (and
> misuse) technology they - heh - acquire from others,

Now doesn't THAT sound familiar. A revisting of themes indeed...

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Replies:

Overhangs, caves, waves...Louis Wu 11/10/00 9:38 p.m.
     Re: Overhangs, caves, waves...mattd 11/10/00 11:16 p.m.
           Re: Overhangs, caves, waves...$erial-ki!!A 11/11/00 7:47 a.m.
     Re: Overhangs, caves, waves...Ape Man 11/11/00 12:11 a.m.
           Re: Overhangs, caves, waves...Mark Levin 11/11/00 12:18 a.m.
           Ego: Gun emplacements (A La M60)Noah S. 11/11/00 1:47 a.m.
           Re: Overhangs, caves, waves...Forensic 11/11/00 12:58 p.m.
           better not be "foldy weapons"... (nt)Orlando the Axe 11/11/00 2:45 p.m.
                 what's wrong with "foldy weapons?" (NT)Ape Man 11/11/00 3:10 p.m.
     Matt Soell, you are God.Psyrixx 11/11/00 12:17 a.m.
     Good things and bad things...Troy Lawlor 11/11/00 2:25 a.m.
           Re: Good things and bad things...Psyrixx 11/11/00 4:07 a.m.
                 Re: Good things and bad things...Nights 11/11/00 8:18 a.m.
                       Re: differences with TSKalis 11/11/00 11:47 a.m.
                             Re: differences with TSfatboy18 11/11/00 2:53 p.m.
                                   Re: differences with TSPsyrixx 11/11/00 5:03 p.m.
           Who needs .plan files?Forensic 11/11/00 8:41 a.m.
                 Re: Who needs .plan files?Loren Petrich 11/11/00 11:58 p.m.
                 Re: Who needs .plan files?Matt 11/13/00 5:34 p.m.
                       Re: Who needs .plan files?SiliconDream =PN= 11/14/00 1:39 p.m.
                       Re: Who needs .plan files?Frankenstein 11/14/00 2:40 p.m.
                             Re: Who needs .plan files?mattd 11/14/00 3:13 p.m.
                                   It was. Note:My ego is tentatively expanding. (nt)M. Musashi 11/14/00 3:44 p.m.
                                   Re: Who needs .plan files?Frankenstein 11/14/00 4:59 p.m.
                       Re: Who needs .plan files?fatboy18 11/14/00 6:10 p.m.
                             I don't think he's going to tell us...M. Musashi 11/14/00 7:59 p.m.
           Re: Good things and bad things...Gra 11/11/00 3:14 p.m.
                 Re: Good things and bad things...Dan Rudolph 11/11/00 3:54 p.m.
     I knew it!SiliconDream =PN= 11/11/00 3:32 a.m.
           LOL ntTursas 11/11/00 11:40 a.m.



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