hmmm... earthquakes anyone?

[Kryptic17]

does anyone know if it would be possible to create realistic earthquakes in HL2... just curious the idea crossed my mind and i thought that would be really cool to see in a map... imagine your walkin through c17 or some other generic city and all of a sudden a small tremor starts then grows in intensity... chunks of the buildings start to crumble around you... the ground starts cracking open and deforming... in the backgroup in the 3d skybox you can see a huge sky scrapper collapes... maybe you even close enough to it that a huge wave of dust and debis comes rushing at you and surronds you so you have barely any visiblilty... imagine the confusion and panic as your desperatly trying to find someplace to find shelter... evenually the earthquake stops... the dust will evenually clear and you can see the area is almost entirly decimated... then maybe later on you'd go there aftershocks which are not as intense but still pretty cool... now... would that scenerio be possible to do in HL2?

 

[bliink]

would that scenerio be possible to do in HL2?

certainly should be. (I mean.. if you were fiddly enough, and went for a little less.. the HL1 engine could handle something similar)

 

[Locust]

yep, but it would be a heck of a lot of work.

 

[Kryptic17]

ya... man it would be soooooo cool though =p

 

[bliink]

yep, but it would be a heck of a lot of work.

it would be about 500% more work in HL1

 

[Kryptic17]

ya but with the visuals in hl2... i bet it would look amazing =)

 

[bliink]

ya but with the visuals in hl2... i bet it would look amazing =)

you could make it look very good.. any massive destruction can look very pretty...

 

[Ames]

Simple env_shake should do. Nothing fancy though.

 

[Kryptic17]

Simple env_shake should do. Nothing fancy though.

ya... but see all the cool stuff would be the buildings falling apart and the ground deforming and the whole skyskrapper collapsing and stuff =p

 

[LittleB]

...any massive destruction can look very pretty...

Hehehe


/me goes out with a crowbar and makes some pretty visuals

 

[bliink]

Hehehe


/me goes out with a crowbar and makes some pretty visuals

but I mean... stuff like this!

 

[Delicious Bass]

wow, i really like this idea. seeing buildings crumble, maybe someone driving by being crushed? or flipped over? ooooh, i hope someone does this :bounce:

 

[Kryptic17]

but I mean... stuff like this!

hmmmm that gives me another idea.... suddely theres a bright flash and in the 3d skybox you see a nuke going off and then suddely the area around you is hit by the shockwave from the explosion... that would be pretty cool too =p

 

[Dasparov]

you could ofcourse make a level with blocks, like bricks...so when it shakes it falls apart?