Will anything of arma engine remain in final game?

[robophant 102]

^this?

I can't really find a definite statement on the matter.

Does anyone know?

[stinkenheim 249]

By 'arma engine' I'm assuming you mean the RV engine... In which case no, it won't be that but the Enfusion engine instead.

It'll share similar properties as the RV engine as it was derived from that but will include different scripting language, sound modules and renderer along with anything else they decide to change- at least that's how I understand it.

[grimlok 77]

Only in memory will it remain.  Rest in peace RV

[Chaingunfighter 917]

The short, official answer: No.

 

Long, "actual" answer: It depends. There will certainly be legacy code remaining in the game files that has no real purpose, and I can bet quite a bit of it will combine a lot of aspects of older work - it won't be completely gone because the new engine relies on assets from the previous engine.

 

The 'core' that BIS uses will also remain the same; they'll still use the same file types (P3D and such) but the way of handling them will be new.

[BeefBacon 1185]

Seems a bit of a malformed question. I don't think it has a real answer besides 'yes and no'. 

 

Take the Source engine for example. That still has lines of code from the Quake engine from which it was built, but besides a few fundamental engine features (brush-based world geometry, area occlusion, static lighting, etc) the engines have very little in common. If, in 2004, one were to ask "will Half-Life 2 have anything of the Quake engine left in it" the answer would, technically, be yes.

 

So, despite RV and Efusion being different engines, elements of the RV engine will invariably remain unless the devs rewrite every single line of code which, in all likelihood, they won't. What you should have asked is "to what extent will the new engine differ from the RV engine?" I don't know any more than you do. New renderer with fancy new effects and better optimisation, a reworked inventory framework for crafting and item storage and so on, improvements to character movement and latency, probably new ballistics calculations, so on.

Edited July 13, 2015 by BeefBacon

[-Gews- 7443]

"Will anything of the ARMA engine remain in the final game?"

Yes.

[VahidkinG 192]

Seems a bit of a malformed question. I don't think it has a real answer besides 'yes and no'. 

 

Take the Source engine for example. That still has lines of code from the Quake engine from which it was built, but besides a few fundamental engine features (brush-based world geometry, area occlusion, static lighting, etc) the engines have very little in common. If, in 2004, one were to ask "will Half-Life 2 have anything of the Quake engine left in it" the answer would, technically, be yes.

 

So, despite RV and Efusion being different engines, elements of the RV engine will invariably remain unless the devs rewrite every single line of code which, in all likelihood, they won't. What you should have asked is "to what extent will the new engine differ from the RV engine?" I don't know any more than you do. New renderer with fancy new effects and better optimisation, a reworked inventory framework for crafting and item storage and so on, improvements to character movement and latency, probably new ballistics calculations, so on.

 

This answer need a +1 here.

i wanna just add that, building enfusion is a different task than making dayz it-self. they are making enfusion as they are creating dayz, they are not both the same job. so as Brian mentioned before for a task like making renderer module of enfusion, it just take a couple of months to complete it. the thing that extend the time to bring that module to dayz (so dayz can use that module to render things) is a really Pain in the ars because they have to detach the old one, then attach the new one and making sure that ts actually working with the legacy and new elements of the game and in one word making it stable is a really huge task to do. and this is just an example, you first create a module then detach the old ones and attach new ones but in the end, it's still have its old codes from RV.

 

that is my understanding of things, it's just like that modular phone from google which you can change the camera, you can change the CPU but still its the same phone, it's google's phone and you can't change the fact.