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Soldat Talk => Game Improvements / Suggestions => Topic started by: Dusty on May 05, 2009, 10:35:01 am

Title: Knife trails
Post by: Dusty on May 05, 2009, 10:35:01 am

Just for the looks! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqp674APni8&feature=related) An option next to 'render bullet trails' in the config.

Title: Re: Knife trails
Post by: ~Niko~ on May 05, 2009, 10:43:32 am

It would be nice. I saw that video long ago and looked like a good idea.

Title: Re: Knife trails
Post by: Ketchup on May 05, 2009, 09:46:16 pm

It looks flashy, but makes it look like an actual bullet.

Title: Re: Knife trails
Post by: STM1993 on May 06, 2009, 01:24:19 am

We had a topic on this before.

Personally, I don't wish to see that because it's too flashy, but it'd be nice for mods. Plus, like the bullet trail option, I'd like to see it be able to turn on or off. However, I want it in such a way that you can modify which projectiles have bullet trail and which ones do not. I like bullet trails on my bullets but not on a knife.

Title: Re: Knife trails
Post by: Gnoblar on May 06, 2009, 04:18:58 am

You can script this can't you?

You could also make the knife pic have a trail, though it'd look dumb when holding it, and it's spin.

Title: Re: Knife trails
Post by: ~Niko~ on May 06, 2009, 06:06:28 am

You can't script that iif I am not wrong... createbullet with the same X,Y, direction and speed of the knife thrown?

Title: Re: Knife trails
Post by: STM1993 on May 06, 2009, 06:11:32 am

^ Maybe that'd work, but it would be a very flawed script. Bullets ricochet, but the knife does not. That's one thing.

Secondly, a user may choose to throw his knife at a different speed, that'd also be a problem.

Title: Re: Knife trails
Post by: ~Niko~ on May 06, 2009, 06:20:52 am

I don't really think you can calculate the path of a knife and create a bullet after it with the same speed, so it would have a bullet trail behind the knife... That'd be the point...

Title: Re: Knife trails
Post by: m00` on May 06, 2009, 06:23:19 am

how about not have a trail similar to the bullet for the knife but something similar and very transparent, like a swirly, transparent, thin line. thats how i'd imagine it and it would look good.

Title: Re: Knife trails
Post by: Lord Frunkamunch on May 06, 2009, 06:32:43 am

I'm all for it. Maybe it'd get rid of all the invisible knives.

(also, completely impossible to script)

Title: Re: Knife trails
Post by: Gnoblar on May 06, 2009, 07:32:59 am

Not scriptable. Ok. Well in that case... F12

Title: Re: Knife trails
Post by: Fujifabric on May 06, 2009, 12:17:55 pm

Quote from: m00` on May 06, 2009, 06:23:19 am

how about not have a trail similar to the bullet for the knife but something similar and very transparent, like a swirly, transparent, thin line. thats how i'd imagine it and it would look good.

That is exactly what i was thinking about.

Title: Re: Knife trails
Post by: poodleinacan on May 07, 2009, 06:40:23 am

I don't think knives should have a trail.
It would be to weard...