Standing close to a "mirroring portal"

[crazypatrick]

In the Bar are portals where you can meet yourself. When you get close to the portal, the textures of the character and weapon in the portal disappear.

[DekenFrost]

i don´t think there is a nother way of solving this problem though.

its funny to hit yourself with the wrench :9

[Micki!]

This wouldn't happen, if the game was using full body awareness (well, if programmed well enough), but since it doesn't you see what happens... :o

[crazypatrick]

i don´t think there is a nother way of solving this problem though.

its funny to hit yourself with the wrench :9

Yes, I had the same thought. I think it's very difficult to make it look realistic, because you actually walk through your own body. But you never know, maybe they find a solution to make it look more realistic.

But it's not really a problem, because normally you run through the portal and don't even see that the problem is there. You only see it when you walk slowly.

[DekenFrost]

This wouldn't happen, if the game was using full body awareness (well, if programmed well enough), but since it doesn't you see what happens...

most fps don´t have full body awareness becouse they simply don´t need it. Full body awareness is often used to give the player a realistic shadow or give the player the famous "legs" everyone is talking about. Take riddick for exsample. And of course it is used in any third person game.

I think its a shame that many games don´t have it becouse it was really sweet in riddick, but i can understand it becouse it is just easier to do without it and most players don´t care becouse they don´t know the difference.

and it does little to the overall experience in a normal fps to justify the work you have to spend on it.

[SyntaxN]

The portals in the bar are really funny... :D

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/4828/preyspplay18xl.jpg

[Chris Rhinehart]

How would full body awareness fix the portal issue? You'd still clip into the body regardless.

Really, you'd have to have a system for patching those holes caused by polygons clipped to the near-clip plane. We talked about patching with some type of gore texture (so it looked like you were looking into the player). Which would have been really cool -- but we had to balance the effort versus the payoff.

[3DProgrammer]

Yeah, it’s one of those things that can be currently fixed (for example by fetching a 3D texture for the insides of Tommy) but it’s just not worth it when you have to release a game. This kind of stuff will be really gone with no extra cost to the designer when we move to voxels.