Blood?

[Apomonomenos]

I was wondering, what'll happen to the bodies of a dead soldier? Will it disapere like in AoE III, or will it sink to the ground making an impression of the body like in AoM, or will it stay for a while and slowly decompose or something? Because I'd really like a body to stay there for a while, or you could just make an options setting on how long the bodies should stay.

[Mythos_Ruler]

Usually a battlefield is cleaned up quite quickly in real life. The dead were cremated. Even though we can't really represent this in a typical game, it still doesn't make sense for dead units to lay around for very long.

[Tilanus Commodor]

Strange, this topic is called "Blood?" and question is about the delay time of removing dead bodies. So, I'm gonna give this thread the right draft now (even if I don't know if this question was already asked) - Will there be blood effects?

[Mythos_Ruler]

Yes. There will be blood.

[MrBlack103]

How about you just make it that the bodies disappear a few seconds AFTER the fighting in that area has stopped. I hate bodies disappearing halfway through a battle.

[Belisarivs]

Keep in mind, that dead bodies (unless sprites and so are used) need to be computed, too.

This could seriously hurt framerate in intensive battles when reinforcements are still coming.

[Apomonomenos]

Ok, to put this question in a simpler form:

What will happen to the bodies of the soldiers when they die?

And a new question, What will happen to the debris of the buildings when they are destroyed?

I like AoK's way to put bodies the best

decompose but not sinking into the ground like in AoM.

Also, this hit me; will there be a special death to the people who die from catapaults and other things like it like in Warcraft III?

[MrBlack103]

I've got an idea - how about, bodies disappear like in AoK, but areas where there's been intensive fighting, a few groups of "eye-candy bodies" show up for a longer time? This would charecterize war zones without causing too much lag, I think.

[Mythos_Ruler]

I wouldn't be against, say, 10% of the soldiers that die stay on the map longer than the others.

[plumo]

When you leave like all the bodies as skeletons on the battlefield, that can't cause much framerate drops, can it ?

[Mythos_Ruler]

Not too much, no. But do you want just skeletons, or armour and equipment too?

[Apomonomenos]

Yea that would be awesome something new

Edited May 1, 2008 by Alexthegod5

[MrEmjeR]

Hey I got 2 ideas.

there could be tree options:

1: that players could chose for dead bodys that they quikly sink in the earth after they die

for people with low computer graphics card or processor

2: that bodies lay long on the field and decompose slow.

here it can be that the persons can be carried away and can be burnt and if u do you get points for it (or point systems, I don't know what is used in the game) and metal resources for the armor

3: the same as 2 but with the extra that a simple version of the armor is staying for a long time

if u are to late with burning the body, it can be that u get metal resources for the armor(recycling), but no points. and every player can get the armor but not if the dead person isn't just decomposed

[Caesar]

I'll admit that I always found AoE rather laughable in this respect. The bodies decompose and turn into skeletons before the battle is even over.

[MrEmjeR]

but actualy there has to came more blood in the game.

now u only see blood with dead people, but if people get hurt u don't see blood.

the blood has to fly through te air

[feneur]

As I believe have been explained before that is due to the game not having a particle system yet, the current blood is just a texture, so it can't really fly through the air. Unfortunately we don't have anyone on the team to develop a particle system at the moment, so you'll all have to wait to see any effects requiring that

[Kimball]

It'd be a fun mod for units to carry their dead into a pile and then set fire to it after a battle is over.

[MrEmjeR]

yeah sure. but is there a point system in the game?

[Kimball]

Not exactly sure what you mean by a point system. Elaborate?

[MrEmjeR]

that u get points for things like in AoK.

population, resources, buildings or kills.

[Mythos_Ruler]

Yes. We'll have player scores.

[Apomonomenos]

It'd be a fun mod for units to carry their dead into a pile and then set fire to it after a battle is over.

Maybe as the background when looking at scores, like in AoM in multiplayer were you see a Norse dock in the background (Non-expack version)

[Villi]

The blood in the screeny stands out a bit too much imo. It also looks somewhat blurry compared to the overal sharp quality of the rest of the 0ad graphics.

[Silver]

Scores are usually overrated

Also - I like some blood, but too much distracts and I like to count troop losses and troop count and a few other things. So as previously mentioned - too much blood could be distracting.

[MrBlack103]

Personally, I think that this game would still be great even without blood. Nothing against it, though.