i actually agree on that,
they should better remove the rain,
if they cant manage to make the rain drops fall on the gun.

because currently the rainy map looks unrealistic

I forgot to post this,

maybe it will crash if your able to swim in the water,
but im not suggestion that we should swim in the water.

realistic lookign water is needed for jungle type of maps,
instead using fences/invisable walls, you can use the water as a replacement,

That still sint realistic. If you cant step into the water that'll still look like an invisible wall. water is never used to block of the map edges in an fps, only in rts games. I still stick with the Island facility/resort in the middle of a junlge idea, but ofcourse, you can go into the jungle but you can see it.

how about if people try to get into the water,
they'll see a:
-YOUR ABORDING THE MISSION
or
-STAY ON THE MISSION,
message

i mean, who would swim into the see/water,
if theyre in a middle of a mission,

or you can always put keen mountains, or cliffs that make you fall down if you try to get across the map's border.

Who would? perhaps a tango trying to get away and save his life or someone who is trying to hide. Did you know poping in and out of the water is a nity strategy in Farcry, the AI don get it and thus stop shooting when im under it, then I pop out somewhere else and kill them.

cliff and kill would be better than inaccessible beach.

yep. and, there would still have to be an invisible wall after the water. can you say, skybox?

I sure as hell hope that trigger_hurt is fixed eventually, I sooo want barbed wire

Well, I wont call it invisible if I can see it. What is invisible is the map limitations box, just before the skybox, there really is another box, its the invisible wall Dragon is mentioning, but depends whether or not the map limits has a perfect square area. If it is irregular, then there is a smaller irregular invisbl wall, if no, its this one.

k-3d seems to be a promising program, (and its free)
http://www.k-3d.org/

it has features such as:


SubdivideFaces in action


Plants and trees with the L-System parser.


Reflection map.


Dented reflection map.


SoftObject Polygonizer.


subdivision mesh surfaces with variable-sharpness corners and creases. Rendered with 3Delight

and much more different features, click this link to see more:
http://www.k-3d.org/wiki/Feature_Gallery

Afaik, Law works for Ubisoft. He actually IS an experienced PR. I think you'd better let them handle it.

PRE-ANIAMTED EXPLOSION.

read this attentively

the obj explosion could be more immersive,
currently it looks like a small bang from a small firecracker,

since the bomb sepose to be a improvise explosive device,
the devs really cant measure what demage the bomb would make,

i suggest make a fictional hollywood explosion,

and i know allot of people will disagree with me,
but you just cant have explosion thats 100% realistic,

the best method is to make the explosion a bit fictional/sur-realistic,

now here are some of my idea's,

-make the crate look pitch-dark with allot of dent's,
-all the objects near the exploded crate should explode too,
for example:

lets say the obj crate is the grey box,


now if the crate explodes, the other 4 crate's/boxes should somehow be automaticly destroyed/demaged too,

or when theres a wall near the exploded crate, it should break into pieces,


evrything near the exploded crate should be pitch dark, just to give you the effect that evrything is really exploded,

it would be cool you can see small little materials on the floor thats still on fire,

this all should be pre-aniamted, the pre-animated animation will automaticly be used for evry explosion,

so you see the same animation on evry explosion,

and evryone that comes near the crate from about 6 or 5 meters,.


will automaticly die, i think thats very logical,

now i have some idea's for the death animations,
currently, when your hit by the explosion, the death animation looks a bit boring, you just fall down backwards,

why not add a tiny bit hollywood? like falling 2 or 4 meter backwards and make a 1 or 2 sec air time backwards,

IMO thats awesome!!
and i know allot of people will disagree with me,

but this idea doesnt demage the realism, it's ok to have a little bit fiction in the game,
yes game..., its a freaking game,
games sepose to be entertaining and amusing,

oh and yess, this is just eye-candy,
but a very importent eye candy. because most time you'll see the explosion in the game,

anyways here's some inspirations for the devs:



this could be a piece of the crate just use your imagination..






this is a exaggerated explosion.


http://www.movingcamerasolutions.net/im ... urring.jpg

I only have two real problems.

one is, to make things destructable, they need to b seperate breakable entities, and it might take a buit too much work for all the maps.

the second is that the contensts of the crate aren't told, so it could be explosives, but it could be food, water, or even a load of fluffy flying pink bunnies

not if this is all pre-animated,
so you will see the same animation all the time, when the the bomb explodes.

This, I think, would fall under the eye-candy category.

This supports slower computers because of its engine. By adding things such as explosive scenery, explosive heads, explosive shitting (Added that one for laughs and giggles ); it would cause lag.

It doesn't matter the quality of hosting being used for the server but the comp that is using the server.

~Silentcrisis