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Title: Realistic falling damage?
Post by: Timbo on August 27, 2003, 04:37:10 am

Opinions please...

Title: Realistic falling damage?
Post by: OverFlow on August 27, 2003, 08:49:32 am

I'm leaning towards yes... but maybe not quite all the way realistic

Title: Realistic falling damage?
Post by: Crylar on August 27, 2003, 05:26:31 pm

Just remember thet you can fall like 3 meters and not tak any reall damage.

Title: Realistic falling damage?
Post by: Excalibur on August 28, 2003, 05:42:14 am

wait a min there is falling damage falling down from standing up and FALLING can hurt even kill you in real life, but jumping even 10 or so feet wont hurt you sometimes so do you mean FALLING damage or JUMPING damage.   *--jumping damage the damage you take when you jump from somthing to high--*

Title: Realistic falling damage?
Post by: OverFlow on August 28, 2003, 09:24:56 am

erm... you get hurt (in real life) from landing incorrectly. doesnt matter if your jumping up and down or falling off of something... unless you're too high of course.  

But in-game we assume that the player always lands correctly.  So for example: after falling more than a certain minimum distance the player takes 'x' damage, then add on to that more depending on how far the drop is.  I suggest limiting the maximum damage though.

Obviously if a chracter can jump very high, it wont take any damage from that as it would have already be adapted to falling that distance. (hehe: hint hint, there might be some chracters with cool jumping abilities)

I hope this answers your question, I didnt quite understand it :/

Title: Realistic falling damage?
Post by: Godmil on August 29, 2003, 08:05:29 am

I worry that making the damage too high would make playing annoying..
but slightly more realistic fall damage could work :)

would any of the human upgrades allow them to fall further with no damage?

Title: Realistic falling damage?
Post by: Excalibur on August 29, 2003, 09:16:11 am

Quote from: "Godmil"

would any of the human upgrades allow them to fall further with no damage?

yea like in gloom most aliens can fall and not get hurt at all how about a few humans that can do the same well maybe not fall off a whole lot.

Title: Realistic falling damage?
Post by: OverFlow on August 29, 2003, 10:01:40 am

Quote from: "Godmil"

would any of the human upgrades allow them to fall further with no damage?

the jetpack  :lol:

seriously though, I dont think falling damage should/will play a large role in game play...mainly because most maps don't have huge drops and if they do the player know that they risk damage/death from it.

Title: Realistic falling damage?
Post by: Crylar on August 29, 2003, 10:07:43 pm

The humans can have like exoskeleton for making them a bit faster and jump abit higher and with it they could allso fall a bitt further befor taking damage

Title: Realistic falling damage?
Post by: OverFlow on August 30, 2003, 08:37:53 am

argh, I feel like timbo, but I believe it would be best to first put out a nice stable version, and then work on ideas like that.

and as I said before, I doubt that falling damage will be a big issue and if you want to get to a high location theres always the jetpack.  Making an entire nother model just so people can run faster doesnt seem to me to be a good use of time at this time.  

Maybe when I get bored in the next couple days I'll make one though :P Although thats getting quite close to gloom (xt) and we don't really want to do that  :-?

Title: Realistic falling damage?
Post by: Crylar on August 30, 2003, 04:14:46 pm

No, an exoskeleton not a exosuit.

Title: Realistic falling damage?
Post by: Timbo on September 01, 2003, 06:05:40 am

Well, that's that decided then. (http://tremulous.net/junk/ChangeLog)