Damagable Maps

[VideoJinx]

I think it would be a great idea to add damagable maps..

Take ape_city their are serveral buildings that are destructable on that map.. altho they do take tooo long to destroy. I was thinking maybe the team team could make a Damaged map... then cover the damaged parts with models that have a life span.. when the life reaches 0 it blows up into pieces an rocks come out/ fall to the ground...


Example: esf_city.. Make a bunch of broken buildings... and add the rest of the build as a model..

 

[J-Dude]

Only thing with that is that it'd double polycounts and it wouldn't make sense for stuff to blow up without being touched by attacks.

 

[VideoJinx]

sigh plz read posts carefully ... the stuff wouldn't blow up randomly. It has a "LIFE SPAN" this life span is lowered when a beam detonates near it... or somone is knocked into it..ect..

 

[DragonDude]

In other words, health. Which is neither new, nor innovative.

sigh plz read posts carefully

This stuff won't be in the next releases, so don't bother posting about it:

Terrain damage
There won't be any form of massive terrain damage in ESF. The halflife engine won't allow maps with much breakables without making your framerate drop drasticly.

 

[Grega]

http://forum.esforces.com/showthread.php?t=63663

Nuff said XD

 

[MF29]

I don't think we need all that stuff, It's just more and more lag

 

[donnierisk]

yeah, like in the posts abobe, maybe LITTLE damagable stuff, like example in esf_arrival, if you keep on hitting trunks' space ship for a few hours or so the top part blows up, then later the whole thing, well I've only gotten till the top part being away, but you get what I'm saying?

I tri3ed making a map like that a few months back, I stood at a sturdy 8 fps or so, and when powering up EVEN LOWER, so sorry, can't be done.