Author Topic: Brick Physics Preview  (Read 97583 times)

Badspot

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VIDEO:

Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/2423226
YouTube Normal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goxXAPBUGgs
YouTube High Def: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goxXAPBUGgs&fmt=22 (be sure to hit the full-screen button)

Kompressor has been laboring on this in secret, and now it's all pretty much "working".  There is still testing to be done and bugs to be fixed.

There are also some caveats which he illuminated later in this thread (cutpasted here for convenience):
Physics are automatically disabled if they make the game run too slow. You can also toggle them off if you don't want them. You can also set how many physical bricks at a time you want (so that you don't overwhelm your computer).

Whenever a brick is fake-killed (for instance, when you shoot it with a rocket and it flies away or if you fire a fakekill event), it now uses real physics instead of falling through the world. The normal rules apply for determining when something can be fake-killed (ie do you trust the guy shooting).

Brick physics are only simulated client side, so you can't stand on physical bricks (although they are shoved around by players/vehicles and if one falls on your head it would bounce off). This also means that the server doesn't know anything about the brick physics, so you can't go totally rube goldberg and have, say, a falling brick trigger a switch or something. You can build neat stuff like the catapult, though.
« Last Edit: December 04, 2008, 01:16:45 AM by Badspot »



« Last Edit: December 04, 2008, 11:37:11 AM by //Reformist »

Private video? o.O
But I saw normal definition before it got private'd, sweet loving epic.

the only one that works is on vimeo

Wait, did I the see words "Coming Soon" at the end?

EDIT: Osht we won't be able to sleep anymore.
« Last Edit: December 04, 2008, 12:02:05 AM by Friendly Fire »


Tom

So this is what Trader needed to finish the elevators.

Its neat, but I'm not sure if I like it a lot, its something we never expected to happen.


So this is what Trader needed to finish the elevators.

No.

Holy loving stuff cakes.

<3

Holy... stuff....

Teal am amazed.

Tom

Now we wait for it to come out...
...anyone gonna start guessing yet?

I'd hate to nag Badspot about the next version, but it looks like we have a reason to look forward to V11

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Holy stuff...