ground hardness

emmanuel · Post by **emmanuel** » 28 Jun 2006, 19:34

i m not a mapper but i supose soft is hardness 100
i see some 999999 maps and some 70 without crushable ground...
yes it s great but some effect seems...specials
see this pic where a long burst reloadtime=.1; default=140;(damag) areaofeffect=28; edgeeffectiveness=.1; move the ground by angular awfully

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smoth · Post by **smoth** » 28 Jun 2006, 19:44

why is this in the dev forum? this belongs in the map forum.

emmanuel · Post by **emmanuel** » 28 Jun 2006, 20:57

i think this related to code and not to mapping
what can do a mapper agaisn t this effect?
increase the hardness not chang this kind of ground move i think=isn t?

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 28 Jun 2006, 21:01

No, the mapper controlls the hardness of the map. Some maps are "soft" like that.

EXit_W0und · Post by **EXit_W0und** » 29 Jun 2006, 18:21

I think what he's saying is that the ground shouldn't make such a jagged crater when alot of projectiles hit soft ground - they should flatten out more. It doesn't quite look right to me from that screen shot. Does the softness of the ground only affect how deep a crater is when an explosion hits? That would seem to explain the effect.

Cheesecan · Post by **Cheesecan** » 29 Jun 2006, 18:29

Doesn't it deform more smoothly on lower values?

FizWizz · Post by **FizWizz** » 29 Jun 2006, 18:35

the crater has to happen over a larger surface for it to be smoother, because of height-map resolution. A volley of high-impulse, small explosion weapons will make the worst (most jagged) looking impacts.

Cheesecan · Post by **Cheesecan** » 29 Jun 2006, 18:46

Wouldn't increasing the height map resolution(say double it, to 1:4 of texture) to solve this also make shadowing even slower?
There is probably another solution though..

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