And you could do the zombie splitt in two parts when you shoot it with a shotgun or big power weapon in the middle ?
Like in Follout 3 : exploding in several parts perhaps ramdomly ?

Currently you can do the following:

* Normal kill, just playing the death animation
* Headshot, the head get's destroyed
* Explode in body parts

At the current state of the game we don't want to seperate the body parts. This has the following reasons:
* Will not match to the feeling of the game
* Too fps hungry, instead we like to place 10 more zombies instead of this effect

Ok with head shot , we don't see the head no more even as a detached object, you could do same with body, you would see legs only ?

Why you say : explode in body parts and you say after :
At the current state of the game we don't want to seperate the body parts.
Hard to understand !

He means no single body parts, like split only one leg or one arm.

So why he said :

Currently you can do the following:

* Normal kill, just playing the death animation
* Headshot, the head get's destroyed
* Explode in body parts


He say you can do it ! and after he say no body parts ?
Crazy thread

It is a big difference to remove an objekt and create some ph-"body parts" in the death sequence instead of moving and controlling several objects as one zombie model.
Look at zapans videos.
Sometimes when he fires with big guns, the body explodes into peaces.
The head effect is made by using the new "vmask" effect, my opinion.


What I make is controlling several parts of limbs as one model. So I have the possibility to remove one part. Big disadvantage of this method... fps hungry, as zapan said. So I can not show 10 models at the same time with the possibility to build up one model with 11 elements. Zapan want to show masses of zombies, so he must reduce all his effects.

edit... if you want to check this out... go to my thread...
several limbs to one model

The first level is nearly finished. Next step will be placing dirt and some other details on the ground and the walls (sprites). After that is finished we'll integrate pathfinding and drop/remove some more items...









What do you think?

Looks great, but could you post a video here? Just to feel how it is in game....

the shots look good, i always hated depth of field though, the dual weapons look awesome, n i must say this is a fun game so far, am sure you know its downfalls....

may i ask the FOV/camera.arc value that you are using? it looks somewhat narrow... i think [in a good way]

Here are 2 cover versions (just with the title):

1:

2:


What do you think?