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Pedestrians, AI
- Carmageddon
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Pedestrians, AI
I think a solid and broad pedestrian AI could really help bring the world (map) alive. In Carmageddon 1 I've spent ages just hunting down the peds and consider them a major part of the game so I hope they'll get the attention to detail they deserve. Please, for heavens sake, don't just give it zombies or something with braindead AI.
Much more variety would also be nice, how about a few in wheelchairs that racers could torment and push around at insane speeds down the road while they scream and flail around, some with shopping trolleys, some walking their dog(s). Maybe a dense pack of protestors or rioters, that would make a great target but could also be risky if you're not careful and they all start pounding your stuck car.
Also please don't make them do anything to crazy like somehow jumping onto a car passing at high speed (as in the game Clutch), it looks more cheesy then anything else.
ps Tried searching incase this has been brought up but didn't have much luck since I couldn't find a search option, anyway.
Pedestrians, AI
- Mad_Maxine
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Pedestrians, AI
But ya AI, run, freeze, throw stuff sounds cool, cant really think of anything that could help,
Personally i think most ideas ive seen here in peopesl topics wouldent really work, so, glad to see someone down to earth
I belive we need,
A rough 50% by 50% male/female population, i dont know if wheelchairs would work but, all diffrent conditions of person, from fit joggers to old ladies with zimmerframes (wich would tribute to carma1) ya know, fat buisnes men, sexy secraterys, nerds, angry jocks, young cocky buisnesmen (the type i hate) old people, etc, normal-ish i also dont really belive other animals would work, lets stick to pigs, sheep and cows? big stuff eh,
- Zodape
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Pedestrians, AI
- Dodo Bizar
- driver
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- Synetearis
- turbo bastard
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'character' and more complex behavior would really top if of.. I like the idea of peds defending them self mixed with sheaple..
- BattleMetalChris
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Reqlly? For me, one of the funniest parts of Carma 2 was the zoo. I'd like an entire map set in a zoo, not just a small section of a bigger map like it was in C2.Mad_Maxine wrote:i also dont really belive other animals would work, lets stick to pigs, sheep and cows? big stuff eh,
Visiting peds to kill, paths to drive down, big grassy (and muddy) enclosures and of course as many different animals as possible. A velociraptor enclosure too...
- TurboDonkey007
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Pedestrians, AI
- ArchangelX
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Pedestrians, AI
I always felt like the low detail peds in C2 were a bit of a step backwards. I know having the 3d models allowed them to do more with changeing their size and haveing limbs fly off. Plus Im guessing it would be easier to add/change animations for 3d than to re/paint new animations for sprites. However I still felt the animations were of a higher quality and suited the mood of the game better.
Tho C2 had a slightly less dark/gritty look with both cars and environments.
On a slightly sepperate note, high quality sprite animations may not have the benefits of ragdoll physics, but they do allow more detail with gore.
The animations in C1 were great, with piles of blood/guts and bodys being ripped open as you smashed into them, whereas ragdolls typically do not offer the same level of detail, as it would require haveing a heap of different models for limbs/guts etc.
Unless you had some kind of dynamically changing mesh/model, but seems like a pipe dream.
The ragdolls in GTA4 for example, while great in terms of physics, dont offer much in the way of bloody mayhem that would be appopriate for a carmageddon game.
Can anybody think of any modern games where the ragdolls have a high level of dismemberment? especially where it would look good interacting with fast moving objects.
I'd be very intereested in where the team plans to go with ped physics/animations/models, or what their engine is best suited for.
Pedestrians, AI
aus_mike wrote:Am I the only one that preferred the well done sprite animations from the first carma over the 3d ones in carma2?I always felt like the low detail peds in C2 were a bit of a step backwards. I know having the 3d models allowed them to do more with changeing their size and haveing limbs fly off. Plus Im guessing it would be easier to add/change animations for 3d than to re/paint new animations for sprites. However I still felt the animations were of a higher quality and suited the mood of the game better.
Tho C2 had a slightly less dark/gritty look with both cars and environments.On a slightly sepperate note, high quality sprite animations may not have the benefits of ragdoll physics, but they do allow more detail with gore.
The animations in C1 were great, with piles of blood/guts and bodys being ripped open as you smashed into them, whereas ragdolls typically do not offer the same level of detail, as it would require haveing a heap of different models for limbs/guts etc.
Unless you had some kind of dynamically changing mesh/model, but seems like a pipe dream.The ragdolls in GTA4 for example, while great in terms of physics, dont offer much in the way of bloody mayhem that would be appopriate for a carmageddon game.
Can anybody think of any modern games where the ragdolls have a high level of dismemberment? especially where it would look good interacting with fast moving objects.
I'd be very intereested in where the team plans to go with ped physics/animations/models, or what their engine is best suited for.
This can be solved with particle effects. Just making the big chunks 'o' meat fall off from the 3D model, and making guts as particle effects. I know, it's old school and not really HQ style, but it works neatly.
Pedestrians, AI
aus_mike wrote:Can anybody think of any modern games where the ragdolls have a high level of dismemberment? especially where it would look good interacting with fast moving objects.
Bulletstorm.
- Dodo Bizar
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Pedestrians, AI
Good point there, I never played C2, but checking all C2 vids on youtube etc. gives me the idea 3d-models for peds were a step back indeed. At least then it was. I am afraid though that keeping up with sprites will be really a turn off for some people.aus_mike wrote:Am I the only one that preferred the well done sprite animations from the first carma over the 3d ones in carma2?I always felt like the low detail peds in C2 were a bit of a step backwards.
- BattleMetalChris
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Pedestrians, AI
However with C2, you can knock someone down, break their leg off which then slides down the street and trips a whole bunch of other peds over. Horses for courses really. I wonder if there's a middle-ground? With C1's more stylised impacts combined with C2's ability to punt people realistically all over the map?
- Ray Murderiz
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Pedestrians, AI
maybe some variarity on the pedestrians ages. not too young but semi young would give more depth to a map.
instead of just adults or old people it should be also teenagers. to make it more controversial.
hope to see the game in 2012.
Pedestrians, AI
BattleMetalChris wrote:I wonder if there's a middle-ground? With C1's more stylised impacts combined with C2's ability to punt people realistically all over the map?
Well, you don't have to stick with sprites - that's too much work. But you could properly code peds ragdolls' behavior (animations, physics etc) so they would look as as funny as sprite-based ones.
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