day/night cycle

[madness]

Will the time of day change during a round on one map ? Say, you begin in the morning and by the end of the round its afternoon/evening or smth like that ?

One guy at TQW claims it is like that. I kinda doubt it.. :huh:

[sledGe]

lol i dont think ET:QW will ship with that "feature" :nag:

[ayatollah]

Well they have said that they will have real-time day/night cycle.

If its not realtime there is definately the option to play at different times of the day.

[bobjones]

Well they have said that they will have real-time day/night cycle.

If its not realtime there is definately the option to play at different times of the day.

ooo...i didn't know that. badass :clap:

[digibob]

:uhoh:

[TheKaiser]

The options for time of day are there. I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to rig up a server script that changes that over time as it's just a variable you can change in console. I can't wait for some trippy super fast day cycles that only take 5 seconds and are nonstop. I'll call it Disco of Death.

[Mavrik347]

:uhoh:

lol, *face drops* *on the verge of crying* "Poor little programmer, all these silly things to make."

[nUllSkillZ]

The options for time of day are there. I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to rig up a server script that changes that over time as it's just a variable you can change in console. I can't wait for some trippy super fast day cycles that only take 5 seconds and are nonstop. I'll call it Disco of Death.
Hmm I think DoD is in use already.

[carnage]

where have you herd this about day/night cycles. there have defaintly been discusions on this and the effects in game but i dont think there has been any actul confirmation from a SD member and digibob's smiley doesnt fill me with hope

[TheKaiser]

They showed us (the press) how time of day could be switched with a var in console last January at activision.

[Danyboy]

i think you mean one of the editor tools which draws the night's sky showing each star's correct location for any given date

[GlobalWar]

Would be cool if you start a match in daylight and it starts to get dark and i forgot my flashlight :)

Brings back memories of my time in the army.....

[Bravo]

You must have been in the American Army to have a flashlight, cos in the British Army we had no such luxury. To read maps in the dark, we had to light our farts

[Joe999]

changing day/night cycles can totally add to the atmosphere during gameplay. i experienced that when i played dead rising and was thinking when the f*ck will it become day again ... and then finally the relief when the sun rose up and so did my aim :D

story in quake wars could be that the strogg got a big mothership which fires a beam at the earth which increases speed of the rotation ... something like you saw in the initial Drej attack sequence of Titan AE (which is a most awesome movie btw) :)

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/3900/titanaexp4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[carnage]

changing day/night cycles can totally add to the atmosphere during gameplay. i experienced that when i played dead rising and was thinking when the f*ck will it become day again ... and then finally the relief when the sun rose up and so did my aim

true but you not just talking about coding something that will change a few sky light settigns and a new skybox, there could be major impacts on gameplay and totaly throw the balance in a stage of the map and the extra work it would create scripting all the lights on buildings etc to come on off at right time. i gess that could be done with some key values in for the light eneties rather then scripting each one though

although it does seem to be a shame to build a game on a dynamicly lit engine and have a mostly static lighting theme

[ayatollah]

i think you mean one of the editor tools which draws the night's sky showing each star's correct location for any given date

No that was mentioned too, but it was probably in the same article that they said the maps can be played at different times of the day.

[TheKaiser]

i think you mean one of the editor tools which draws the night's sky showing each star's correct location for any given date

No, I mean watching them go into console and seeing the map change from noon to sunset and seeing how all the shadows changed significantly making the map radically different.

[Danyboy]

well if the time of day did change - it would only be a small amount as campaign maps are only 30 mins long.


who wants to spend 8 hours in a server, on one map?

[TheKaiser]

The point is not that time changes over time, the point is that you can set the time for the map and have it play differently. IE The shadows under a tree you used to hide in are now stretched far away because it's later in the day, etc.

I was thinking it would be fun to write a script to change this variable over time, but at a much faster rate (Like a full day cycle in 1 second)

[Ifurita]

It could be very cool to have game lighting match actual server clock time. Every time you played the map, it would be a little different

[carnage]

It could be very cool to have game lighting match actual server clock time. Every time you played the map, it would be a little different

although i realy would like to post a bashing reply to this its has been gone over MANY MANY times in the forums already so lets not start this debate again

[Florisjuh]

Mmmh in clanwars it will suck, you will have clans who don't want to play at night because everything is dark! :(

[ayatollah]

It could be very cool to have game lighting match actual server clock time. Every time you played the map, it would be a little different


although i realy would like to post a bashing reply to this its has been gone over MANY MANY times in the forums already so lets not start this debate again

What you talking about Willis?

I think this is a good idea and thought this was the idea that the devs had in mind.

Mmmh in clanwars it will suck, you will have clans who don't want to play at night because everything is dark!

Yeah but there will surely be a cvar to keep it at one time.

[Grey Matter]

You must have been in the American Army to have a flashlight, cos in the British Army we had no such luxury. To read maps in the dark, we had to light our farts

Id like to see you do that after you have had a curry lol

[Bravo]

We weren't allowed curries, because the resultant explosion would have given away our position

[Ifurita]

Not really sure why my comment would deserve a bashing reply, .... but OK. It's just the statement of a simple opinion, somewhat along the lines of, "I like Tandoori chicken." It's not like I just suggested the partitioning of Iraq or the ceding of the Golan Heights to Syria.

Then again, if my simple little opinion was the worst thing to happen to you that day ... I must say that your day must have been going along pretty darn well.

[carnage]

Then again, if my simple little opinion was the worst thing to happen to you that day ... I must say that your day must have been going along pretty darn well.

well i live a very shelterd life, only leaving the house when there is no sunlight or i need milk

and my reason for "disagreeing" (if you prefer) is that the maps would mostly not be differnt every time you played them, i dont know about you but i defaintly dont have the option to game pretty much wheneve i want, its limited mostly to evenings when i have some time to myself, so if i am playing on servers that are relativly close (globaly) to get a low ping the time of day every time i play is going to be pretty much the same. i dont want to buy a game that allows maps to be played at any time of the day and find myself 95% of the time playing in only the night or evening setting where i dont realy get to explore the graphics and differnt gameplays of playing maps at differnt times of the day

also i dont see how matching the game time to the server clock realy adds anyhting to the gameplay other then making it a sort of novelty value, the maps and story etc (most likely) dont folow each other in the sence that when one map ends the story for the next map just begins, and since they are on differnt global locations the times would be differnt anyway. imo even a random time would be better since your mixing your familiary of the map with your ability to adapt whatever conditions you are playing in

[ayatollah]

As I said above, there will surely be a cvar to set the time. Maybe it will only have morning, afternoon, evening, night, but I'm sure it will be customisable server side to set it at the server time or any time in the option. If you want to play at a certain time, other than night, you have 3 options.

1) Play at any other time...
2) Play on a server with the settings you want...
3) Buy your own server and host it whatever way you want.

This is all pure speculation as nothing has been confirmed but Iffy's comments hardly warranted your response. If it is an option then I'm sure, like everything else, it will be customisable.

[carnage]

1) Play at any other time...
2) Play on a server with the settings you want...
3) Buy your own server and host it whatever way you want.

This is all pure speculation as nothing has been confirmed but Iffy's comments hardly warranted your response. If it is an option then I'm sure, like everything else, it will be customisable.

ok if i caused any ofence by using the word based i apologise sincerly, no awfense was meant,

1) that was the point of my post that for a lot of gamers out there playing at whatever time they want is not a realsitic option, yes i get the ocasional free day etc but the constraints of actuly having a life mean that a lot of time is taken up by more undesirable activites such as work. for me simply wating for a day off so i can spend 2 hours in the afternoon playing in daytime is not what i would want from a game

2) a posibilty depending on how many servers are running the settings i want etc, but finding a nice list of servers with the settings i want and are opften poulated and having a list long enough so that i can prety much find a server to suit the time i want to play, could be a lot of work

3) again maby posible for some but then i woud have the costs of running a server, all the other activites chewing my time up that are involved with running a server, then the responsability of regulating and administering the server and recuring staff etc to help, its a lot of work and cost just for a casual gamer who likes to a game now and again, not to mention it would only be playable when the server is populated

im merly fighting the argumnet against the need for server time setting but the only arguemnt against it seems to be that it would be cool cos its realsitic, reallism/gameplay

[ayatollah]

In my opinion its just another feature that people will either use or won't be bothered. Some people don't like foliage but that is a server side option, what do they do? They search for a server running the options they like. Its the same with any server side option, and also server rules. You don't like it go to a different server.

[Scepheo]

Different types of weather would be rather cool. Hiding in the shadows all the time and a lightning flash shows the enemy where you are.
The "fart lightning" should be a special, sometimes very strong weapon. (depends on your dinner)