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Author Topic: The Little Things  (Read 6470 times)

GHAO

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The Little Things
« on: February 17, 2013, 02:08:32 pm »
Basically, post here about the tiny things that make a surprising amount of difference. Most of the talk on these forums has been large-scale planning :P Apologies if anything's been discussed before.

What I'd like to see:
A speedometer on the truck.
Hopefully, some sort of manual gearing - so PageUp and PageDown (or other keys) do change up and change down respectively.
Random colouring of grasses - at the moment it's basically all green, isn't it, but real, rural grass has spots of brown and straw-colour.
Same random colouring of dirt and rock - although water would affect colour, turning dirt to mud.
Solid trees.
Also, there's a bug (?) in which the Tatra, if going down to steep a slope, suddenly launches into midair, spinning wildly. The engine goes into overdrive, and goes off the end of the keyboard in pitch!
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Re: The Little Things
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2013, 02:25:02 pm »
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A speedometer on the truck.
The old Tatra 813 had a working speedometer, and I actually don't know why it isn't implemented in the new one - with the script it can be easily done as long as the pointer is a bone in the model.

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Hopefully, some sort of manual gearing - so PageUp and PageDown (or other keys) do change up and change down respectively.
This needs a universal input interface so that you can assign any input actions. Vehicles can then implement whatever they want.

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Random colouring of grasses - at the moment it's basically all green, isn't it, but real, rural grass has spots of brown and straw-colour.
Grass is colored, but the effect is subtle. If you saw it without coloring you would immediately notice the difference.
A larger variety will come with the biome support.

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Also, there's a bug (?) in which the Tatra, if going down to steep a slope, suddenly launches into midair, spinning wildly. The engine goes into overdrive, and goes off the end of the keyboard in pitch!
A bug, the simple engine model in Tatra derives the sound pitch from the vehicle airspeed :)
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Re: The Little Things
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2013, 04:06:43 pm »
I look forward to the additions, sounds like at least you know they're possible :P
Can't wait for the extra biomes.
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