Friday 2010-06-17 Dev. update and Discussion Thread

[Il2Pongo]

Originally Posted by Foo'bar

And additional development screenshots.

Love your Darkest Hour stuff too. Some of the maps I have seen, some not.
I play allot of Darkest Hour too, which just had a release.

[Alien]

Sh*t! Again!

Originally Posted by Alien

Sh*t! Again!

Could you please specify this statement.

[philip.ed]

I think it's a repercussion of being off nappies too soon. Alien, wear them for another month, and then maybe this won't happen

[Alien]

I mean my question from 21. site was ignored AGAIN

[AndyJWest]

Originally Posted by Alien

I mean my question from 21. site was ignored AGAIN

If you mean the question you asked about 'metal bending', no Oleg Maddox hasn't answered it. There have been many questions asked about SoW:BoB. Some he chooses to answer, some he doesn't. Most games developers don't disclose anything like the amount of detail about projects they are working on as he does. Personally I'm grateful to see what he does tell us.

[major_setback]

Originally Posted by Alien

I mean my question from 21. site was ignored AGAIN

I think it is an impossible question to answer, that is why he didn't answer it.

If you want a piece of metal to bend, then I think it has to be modelled as bent
(or if you wanted to see it gradually bend - you would have to model each individual degree of the bend).

The propellers are bent in damage WiPs, but they are modelled that way.

I think it is impossible to make a 3D model that will bend, but I'm not an expert, nor even an amateur 3D modeller;
just an amateur forum contributor.
Maybe someone who does 3D modelling can tell you - Foo'bar? Saxon?

Bent propellers and flaps:

[IceFire]

Never seen any software that did actual real time object deformation in that way. Virtually all games use tricks to change out one object for another that shows damage.