breakable tree branches?

[philterlecki]

Hey i was thinking today, if you shot a branch of a tree in hl2 would it break off? I know it its a stupid question but it would make my day if you could.:cheers:

 

[scurvy]

seriously doubt it

 

[koopa]

Probably not, but I guess it could be made so that it did.

 

[scribblehead]

like with the wooden planks problem, its more of a gameplay issue

 

[Apos]

Only if they made it so ( you have to specify break points for thinks you want to break apart). They could very easily have have wood chips splinter off tho.

 

[x84D80Yx]

would be cool, wood should fragment like wood, and trees should fragment just like trees? lol

design desion, not a technical limitation i guess.

 

[philterlecki]

hopefully a future mod will implement it, like DOD2 or something;(

 

[switch]

well, seen as you can make characters into water and they splash when you shoot them (or so i remember it saying) i see no reason why the branches of trees shouldnt be able to be shot off if you make them wood material.

I think it would be a really nice feature, seen as a lot of traps are preset, would be nice to shoot a tree above a couple of combine soldiers and have a branch fall down on top of them

saying that the trees seen in screenshots look a little thin

 

[Xei]

I doubt the game has it but the engine could definately do it.

 

[PvtRyan]

Doubt it, also because a tree will be a static object and will have a lightmap instead of dynamic shadows. So if you blow of a brench, the shadow stays the same.

 

[SheepFactory]

design desion, not a technical limitation i guess.

yea, i guess. Because if i were to be able to shoot a limb and have it break off and fall to the ground, it would totally screw up the design of the game. Yea i can see that.

 

[Hudson]

definetley doable.

 

[Kyle2]

Yeah, it's the same reason why you can't blow holes into buildings. It can be programmed but ehh, they figured it's better that you can't type /impulse101 a bunch of times and turn city 17 into iraq with satchel charges.

 

[Styloid]

Originally posted by SheepFactory
yea, i guess. Because if i were to be able to shoot a limb and have it break off and fall to the ground, it would totally screw up the design of the game. Yea i can see that.

It's good you can see that cause you just summed up the argument. Imagine if everysingle tree in a forest in HL2 could be destroyed. You've just destroyed -the feel and atmosphere of being in the forest
-the suspension of disbelief in the game
-the flow from one point to another of the game
-the sense of continuity in the game
-probably your framerates (lol)
etc.

there's more to a game than just what you can or cannot do.

 

[MultiVaC]

Originally posted by SheepFactory
yea, i guess. Because if i were to be able to shoot a limb and have it break off and fall to the ground, it would totally screw up the design of the game. Yea i can see that.

Heh, well your precious Doom won't do it either.

 

[SheepFactory]

Heh, well your precious Doom won't do it either.

ROFL no i guess it wont. If only Carmack wasnt so incapable and his engines didnt suck so bad he could find a way to make the MARTIAN trees destructable, huh?

 

[kinggi]

all of these great ideas could work if the land itself was shaped so that you dont need stairs, bridges, and ect to get to a certain part of a map that is vital to the mod- essentially you can model and outfit a whole battle arena- for instance creating amap similar to the famous saving private ryan scene at the end and beginning- as long as you can manually reach each area (past the bridge and up the beach head) through the land itself- then you can have a frickin field day with making buildings that tumble and bridges that collpse.

 

[MultiVaC]

Originally posted by SheepFactory
ROFL no i guess it wont. If only Carmack wasnt so incapable and his engines didnt suck so bad he could find a way to make the MARTIAN trees destructable, huh?

Hey, It's not my fault they chose a boring cliche Mars environment. Besides, it not unheard of to maybe have an artificial environment with some plants in it in the installation, for the people that work there to have a pleasant scene once in a while. Some people like the outside, they're not all like you, who can't do anything but troll. And knowing Carmack, he'd say breakable tree branches are a "gimmick".

 

[subs]

lol ....DId you notice none of the trees in hl2 have leaves? NO leaves or foilage = more reliastic looking trees !

what a gimmick!

 

[nsxownzme]

Originally posted by SheepFactory
yea, i guess. Because if i were to be able to shoot a limb and have it break off and fall to the ground, it would totally screw up the design of the game. Yea i can see that.

stupid headcrabs

 

[Apos]

lol ....DId you notice none of the trees in hl2 have leaves? NO leaves or foilage = more reliastic looking trees

Well, the game appears set in late fall. However, there are trees with leaves, and we've seen them (I'll leave it to you to remember where we saw them)

 

[Xtasy0]

Originally posted by Apos
Well, the game appears set in late fall. However, there are trees with leaves, and we've seen them (I'll leave it to you to remember where we saw them)

you should have said "I'll leaf it to you to remember..." ;/ <3 puns.

 

[MultiVaC]

I've seen evergreen trees, can't remember ones w/ leaves...

 

[x84D80Yx]

if this ends up being possible, ima make a huge forrest map, and add a chainsaw weapon

physic engine would make trees knock down other trees?
*just an idea*

 

[genocide604]

there's more to a game than just what you can or cannot do.

uhh, to me that is the game.
lol