WH40K Carnage, coming to home PCs

[1eyedParrot]

A battle just isn't the same when afterwards you gaze upon the field of honor and see the same textured z/x plane. I am to fix this.....

http://www.infamous-adventures.com/parrots/relic00024.jpg

http://www.infamous-adventures.com/parrots/relic00025.jpg

http://www.infamous-adventures.com/parrots/relic00026.jpg

http://www.infamous-adventures.com/parrots/relic00027.jpg

[MusedMark]

LoL
Nice

[skrunt]

i dont think you are even allowed to post screens yet

[SvK]

You May Not Post Screenshots or Videos
Until the game is gold, or a demo has been released.
It's OK.

[BrotherLucius]

Me wanty now, me wanty now

[Lord Dante]

ah so theres a body decay time atribute. - performance issues?

[Moz3ltov]

that many bodies lying around has gotta cause some performance problems. but otherwise very cool.

[curtlegion]

can you tell us how this was done.......please I would love to have this in the game.........please.....thanks curt. :beer:

[1eyedParrot]

It didn't cause too much of a performance hit on my machine, when I panned over to the bodies I could detect a very slight slowness but that was it.

2.4 Intel
768 Main memory
5200 Geforce 128MB

curtlegion,
I will once I perfect it, its not done yet.

[BrianGeneral]

God.IT's nice for the warzone effect.Well done.:)

[1eyedParrot]

UPDATE:

PRO: I have, for the most part, de-constructed and modded the units to not sink away.

CON: The problem is that their technically still "alive" and return a visual sight.

I'm working on a way to get around that.

UP AND COMING:

Effect - Possibility it will be implemented
Blood splatter effects stay - 90%
Crater effects(buldings) stay - 50%
Chaos "demon" effects stay - 20%
Crater effects(explosive shells) stay - 70%

[theBlind]

It didn't cause too much of a performance hit on my machine, when I panned over to the bodies I could detect a very slight slowness but that was it.

2.4 Intel
768 Main memory
5200 Geforce 128MB


*knockknock*
reality check incoming... you got a monster machine compared to the specs and you still notice a slowdown?

What settings do you play on?

[Colonel]

to do this you need to put the body decay to 0
but like TheBlind said.. not everyones computer will be able to support this.

Especially if you play with the Imperial Gaurd mod :P bodies will be piled HIGH

[Lord Dante]

but its a fun mod.

WOuldnt it be cool if when crater effects stay - they would count as heavy cover?

[Beelzebuddy]

Mind telling us exactly what you altered? Is it a global parameter, or something done on a per unit basis?

[curtlegion]

Your the best and thanks.....I look forward to it.... :beer:

[theBlind]

What about making them fade in, say, 60 seconds or so? So you could both have a nice after-slaughter battlefield and many more comps could support it?

I´ll definatly try this onw once I`m home again. Ah, I´m lucky my machine can cope with it :D

[curtlegion]

Thanks.

[Buzz_NL]

*knockknock*
reality check incoming... you got a monster machine compared to the specs and you still notice a slowdown?

What settings do you play on?

ROFLMAO it may be a monster machine compared to the specs but not compared to current gamers machines.i doubt it could even get decent FPS in Doom3.....no offence 1Eyed.
Its just when i see a 5200, i would like to melt it :D
Keep it comin, bro :clap:

[curtlegion]

GameData["health_ext"]["pre_death_event_delay"] = 999999.000

Let the bodies begin.................

in the w40k/data/attrib/ebps/races/

troop.nil file yehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[Sledra]

That is AWESOME.

Cheers curtlegion, and thanks to the guy who posted first.

[1eyedParrot]

Thats the right line, but you'll run into the problem I had, the dead troops are still "alive" and retain visual sight of the area. I'm still searching for a work-around to this problem.

Also if you want to see the death event of the unit, mod this line instead.

GameData["health_ext"]["post_death_event_delay"] = 999999.000

If you want to change the death event, just look in the art folder, then ebps, then events and unit deaths.

[Cybacher]

@curtlegion : Thanx !

@1eyedParrot : Try again. There is not a line
"GameData["health_ext"]["POST_death_event_delay"]" in troop.nil.



Bzw, does anyone know the line that makes the blood stay longer ?

[1eyedParrot]

curt,

You have to add the line, just copy paste.

[Beelzebuddy]

A note: dead bodies still count towards pop. So don't set it to 99999 as orks, or you'll very quickly run out of troops. 60-120 seconds gives you enough time to admire the battles without impacting your pop too much.

[curtlegion]

i was watching the hockey game and hooked up my monitor with my xbox....... used this device http://www.vdigi.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

great device..... :D

I will try this out tomorrow and thanks ....look forward to your
mod in the future .....relic this will be the BEST game.... :beer:

[groundbeef]

Great idea the bodystay thing. I dont need 99999.9999, but its nice to have even for like 30 seconds... just enough to appreciate those more hectic battles (especially 4 player).

[curtlegion]

:smash: :bigwave:

[curtlegion]

help.... :fight:

[K12]

Thats the right line, but you'll run into the problem I had, the dead troops are still "alive" and retain visual sight of the area. I'm still searching for a work-around to this problem.

Also if you want to see the death event of the unit, mod this line instead.

GameData["health_ext"]["post_death_event_delay"] = 999999.000

If you want to change the death event, just look in the art folder, then ebps, then events and unit deaths.

What is the difference between the "post_death" line and the "pre_death" line?

[Mr Orc]

If you can try and get the blood to stay, also what is the body delay thing working in, minutes or seconds?

[matt9871]

what do you use to open .nil files

nvm

[curtlegion]

:bandit:

[mod_penguin]

has anyone tried setting it to -1?

then it wouldnt set a vast timer running on every body and the pop cap might work properly

[groundbeef]

Ive tried playing with the blood delay (art/events/ground_splatter/blood_splatter_death_1) but that doesnt seem to do anything. I dont think its a readily alterable variable like the body decay timer... that or the file needs to be extracted further somehow. I was all excited when i saw these bits: "decal_lifetime
4 decal_texel_size .03 decal_fade_out
3", but changing the numbers do nothing in-game.

[Oddball_E8]

also, on a sidenote, this will be a problem for the single player campaign... since you havent defeated your enemy until the bodies dissapear... and he will also be able to see you since they light up the area...

[curtlegion]

any progress on this?????????????????? :beer:

[curtlegion]

anyone figured this out?????????? :Slap:

[Doublehex]

I don't think so.

[curtlegion]

can someone please figure this out....thanks :beer:

[ricocet]

Any one willing to work on this issue?

[ScarCow]

I think i will give it a try as i want the models stay ingame after death in my Spacehulk mod. Can't promise anything though.....

-sc

[ricocet]

the thing is I can get bodies to stay, but the area around the dead bodies do not have Fog Of War. So you could take a cheap unit over the enemy base, And your guys die. You can still see the area, You can see units moving around and bases being built. I think it is because The bodies are somehow linked to the FOW. Maybe you could have better luck with it than I have. Good Luck.

Ricocet(amigos team)

[ScarCow]

Did you try using Squad_SetWorldOwner in a Scar? I'm just asking beacuse that is the only thing i can think of. So if it didn't work for you i don't want to waste my time on it.

-sc

[ricocet]

I haven't tried that I have not been able to learn scar yet. It will prolly be the next thing I learn though. If you know of any links to tutorials or something could you please post it.

Ricocet(amigos team)

P.S. Sorry for the confusion.

[Bolter Target]

Nice idea, *crosses fingers* hopefully someone will get somewhere with it. The only thing that came to my mind, and it's probably a rediculous idea anyhow, but could you 'exchange' the models for another team's models [ie. one that's neutral.]?

Besides the FOW issue, the idea of starving someone of their troops for 60 seconds, is a wonderful idea. Think about it, you can't reinforce for that time, and it makes commanders with lots of resources take care in assaults.