janus0104

Something like this? http://imgbin.org/images/11600.png It's a bit dark but I didn't want to play around with lighting settings for too long ;) Clean one, dirty one, empty dirty one. Damn forum isn't letting me upload files, so imagebin link :( Not letting me embed it either :( Brought to you by Chernafood Inc.

Well, you would need ridiculously tall grass to be completey concealed anyways. Video games have desensitized us for the fact that you're pretty well distinguishable in open fields, e.g. MGS3 leads you to believe that you can lay a meter next to a patrolling soldier without being spotted because you're in high grass. You never see it from the enemy's perspective or you'd know it's a cheap trick, if the camo index for the current position is high enough the AI is blind to it. Any human player would still see you as well as a car parked there. It takes a very narrow viewing angle for grass to be properly concealing, whether you render the odd grass blade to the side of the model or not. That's why all those photos of nicely concealed soldiers with google image search are at a very low angle, from a bird eye view it works quite differently. At narrow angles, the arma engine already does a pretty good job of disturbing your close-range view in lieu of rendering the entire distance's worth of grass. And then we have 3rd person view that raises the camera angle by a couple of meters, defeating the purpose. I'm sure ghillie suits and camo clothing can be improved to better blend in with the environment and distort the player's outline further, but for normal models, whether you increase vegetation rendering isn't going to change much. Crysis for example purposely gave enemy soldiers clothing that isn't just random brown and green, but color values that match the local vegetation's color scheme. In essence, if there were more random vegetation such as bushes and your viewing perspective were limited to 1st person, much of the problem would go away.

Clearly you don't. "Also with seeing grass from a long distance with again for example farcry it would not cause such a big hit on performance as with arma, as the LOD stays the same all the time, no constant calculating on the background in what detail level something needs to be rendered." You might check that again, LOD management IMPROVES performance. See http://vterrain.org/LOD/Implementations/ for examples on terrain LOD implementations and publications by Boulanger et al. over at http://www.kevinboulanger.net/grass.html

http://www.blenderna...-for-mentalray/ Blental combines Blender with MentalRay, what more can you want? Blender does have a compositing editor, so once it's through the external render process, you can apply all the goodies you want :D

I wasn't too big a fan of blender's UI / way of doing things either. Now when I work with maya I always try and use stuff that doesnt exist in maya like that and i just remember it from blender (i.e. add face vs append to polygon). Anyone borrow me a torture kit so I can get down on zBrush? It's throwing a tantrum, starting up only 1/3 of the time, GoZBrush functionality not responsive, random crashing. Why did I update to the latest version again?

Who says the moment you lose control over your character is the moment your heart stops beating? Change the inspect body to say "His heart-beat is becoming erratic" within the 20 secs, if you defi quick enough you may just save him. I know how defis work in real life, they're not used to reanimate a dead heart but used to treat ventricular fibrillation and such, but it's only a game, you can find justifiable means for anything, and if people want to carry an item for the off chance they get to someone under 30 secs, why not.

A polycount on those would be nice. Other than that, looks fantastic. Heck, I'll pitch in and throw in some meat models if I find the time (if you dont mind other people adding to your thread) - should update ZBrush anyways :D

Hey everyone, I hope this thread doesn't attract too much off-topic banter (yeah, right). It's probably going to be either graveyarded, replied to by people who are as clueless as me and are just guessing around, or necro it's way down the thread list, but here goes. I was wondering about the current stance on community efforts to contribute new features to the DayZ main mod. I've tried reaching out to the dev(s) without response (I haven't been too obnoxious about it, no need to pester anyone), I've seen nice additional features on custom maps that I wonder if those maps' makers tried approaching the main mod's devs to have it ported over, I've seen plenty a good suggestion thread and even tried making my own posts there, including details on how to implement it (without code, why waste my time...) and started some 2D/3D work on them, I've seen pull requests on github with features fully coded just sitting there... Where is this mod going? Who decides what is and what isn't going into it? Is there even a roadmap of sorts, and if so, why doesn't the community have access to such a design document if it's meant to be "an open mod"? So far any effort I've seen is either being ignored or replied to with what I can only equate to "make your own version, kthxbye". Makes me more and more pessimistic. If it said somewhere "Hey, if you wanna add a feature, fork, implement, add models/textures yourself if you need em, then send us a PR when it works", cool, I'd start working on the code, but as it stands, it just seems like I'd be wasting my time.

Why not just make a few civilian alternatives to it? Like the reinforced bulldozer: http://www.hearseclub.com/aaamembersnew/zac/killdozer.jpg The post apoc car: http://www.hearseclub.com/aaamembersnew/zac/Car14.jpg or the refitted old truck: http://www.hearseclub.com/aaamembersnew/zac/jeeperschase.jpg (Just found that with google, don't hold me responsible for any crazy shit that might be on that same website)

Weapons I already think shouldn't be in DayZ.

Why, hello sir! :) Hit me up on skype. And grab an SWGEmu Avatar for god's sake, might aswell show some colors :P EDIT: What irony that I derail my own thread.

As in Odwill?

Tried adding on skype, not sure if I got the right one... what irc server/channel? your PM box is full :D

Cool, I'll start working on some code (I'll probably skype you to check with features that are unreasonable, but it seemed too good an opportunity to quote myself).

Hasn't that been this way for a long time? I knew people who would reconnect anytime they got down to 1 bullet in the clip as a "fast & reload" cheat in previous versions.

Fair enough - and I see what you meant with half a medpack now ;)

"Meat was split up into 5 different types (more bag slots needed as a result since diff. types don't stack) That or you simply carry one type of meat per person. Besides, if you have inventory space problems you are most likely carrying a lot of stuff you don't actually need. Thus you are a hoarder and hoarders are just taking up bandwidth and performance on the servers they play on." Not even that (@ green stuff), Diz seems to be either complaining that his backpack item list is getting longer or doesnt understand the fact that meat never stacked in the first place, just because the limited backpack view (when not pointing your cursor at a loot pile / car trunk) lists them as numbered doesn't mean they take up any less space.

NickName : Elvaron Age : Uh *takes out calculator* 27 or so? Clan/Community : Nope How many hours per week do you game? : 30~40 Why should we take you ? : Msg me on skype if you really need to know (your PM inbox is full or disabled), long story short experienced tester

Did you even read past the OP? ...

Well, the mod is maintained by people not involved in SA development (afaik), so... We can go nuts on whatever we want as long as it fits into DayZ, just a question of who will actually do the work. Doesn't help that anytime I try to start something, making plans for implementation and 3d models / textures and whatnot, the thread gets buried between suggestions that we've already seen half a year ago and dreams about the SA.

We are aware. Not trying to make stuff easier, but more realistic (at least I am).

Sure, you go ahead and do the animations ;) Can't just pullt hem out of a hat. We'll see them in SA, until then noone's bothering with skeleton animation.

That looks nice. I also see a bunch of other neat stuff on their (old) change list: Can no longer abuse blood bags to spam infinite humanity (not sure how they do it, maybe just a fix for an old bug, but sure would be nice to stop bandits from masquerading as heroes/survivors. Maybe only gain humanity from giving the same person blood once / X amount of time - a day or so?) Chloroform. In an experiment to see how heroes and bandits alike use it, Chloroform now rarely spawn in hospitals. You use it just like a blood bag, and it will knock the person unconscious for 3.5 minutes. You can drag them around, load them into a vehicle, or whatever else sounds fun! Tents can no longer be placed in or near buildings. They must also be placed on grass or forest (not, for example, concrete) 1st person is now enforced while inside of any vehicle (both for the survival experience improvement and to make locating tents/camps from vehicles more difficult) If you have a "Box of Matches", you can set tents on fire. This destroys their contents and deletes them from the database so they don't return on restart. You can no longer force feed yourself. You must be at least 1/4 of the way to blinking food/drink before you can consume food/drink. You no longer spawn with a backpack of any kind. Loot spawns even if you're in a vehicle, negating the "park'n'walk" requirement for getting loot. The "Map" no longer spawns by its lonesome, but with other general loot around it just like all of the other tools. Ghillie/Cammo removed from residential loot (only spawns in military/barracks/heli crashes now) Introduced new persistent storage container called "Storage Box". Created using nails, a toolbox, and wood pile. Holds 4 weapon/tools and 20 items. Can be placed ANYWHERE (unlike tents) All sniper rifles removed EXCEPT for the CZ550 and the M24. The CZ550 now only spawns in Deer Stands and the M24 only with helicopter crashes. Both are very rare. Ammo for these rifles does NOT spawn organically in the game and you only get what you find with the gun itself. All silenced weapons removed EXCEPT for the M9 SD and MP5 SD. Both spawn only at helicopter crashes. Both are very rare. Ammo for these weapons does NOT spawn organically in the game and you only get what you find with the gun itself. One LMG removed (M240), the rest (Mk48 Mod 0 and M249) now only spawn at helicopter crashes. Ammo for these guns does NOT spawn organically in the game and you only get what you find with the gun itself. Lee Enfield and Winchester removed from residential loot. Farm Only. Zombie density should be slightly higher and therefore cause zombies to become that much more of a nuisance more quickly.

Ok, I'm not sure you understand what LOD even means at this point, so I'm going to stop discussing this.

If someone has the time and means to animate one, all the power to ya. If you expect BIS art department to handle it, let them worry about other things first.