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We'd want to decide on 'high alert' areas of the player's body and 'low alert' areas. This should take into consideration how easy something is to notice, balanced against how easy it is for the player to control that part of the body. For example, a human hand is quite noticeable. However, the player has no real sense or control of where their hands are, so we would not want to weight them highly by putting a lot of traces there. I'm imagining about 20 different points, with a grouping something like this: 4 - head 2 + 2 - shoulders 6 - torso 1 + 1 - hands 1 + 1 - feet 1 + 1 - knees That would mean that a player behind a curtain, with just his feet sticking out, has a good chance of not being noticed if an AI casually glances over the room (about 80% of not being seen). When the player leans around a corner, they would actually have a real benefit, since 75% of their points would still be blocked. A player who squeezes behind a half-pillar actually WOULD improve their chances of staying hidden this way...if they can hide half their body they have 50% less chance of being seen. If they're in bright light, that's probably only going to gain them a fraction of a second more than normal, but it dim light it could be the difference between alerting an AI or not. Issues: Performance...does adding a lot more points affect performance even if the trace remains once per frame? |
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I think this 7.5 years old issue can be closed, right? While this is definitely interesting, I think it is a little bit late to tune core gameplay mechanics when all mappers have tuned their maps to the existing mechanics. |
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Changing default behaviour isn't really viable, but a way for mappers to designate areas of partial cover is still of potential interest: some posts in http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18914-hiding-behind-a-bush/ consider something of that nature. |
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