For the next FAQ, I'd like to respond to questions from the forums.
Do you guys have any questions?
First question, who won the resource system debate?
Second question, how about an in depth explanation of the combat system plans?
Third question, fully scripted modifications or something more along the lines of what was done in Sins, which is ridiculously easy to mod through the entity files, but doesn't allow anything new?
The camera angle isn't fixed in GC2. SHIFT+arrow keys rotate and pan. I imagine Elemental will work similarly.
Thanks GW I did not know that (about GC2).
I mostly wondered because in the first screen shot from the most recent Dev journal, there is a heavy black line that separates the high ground of the hill from the lowlands below. To me that art style seemed to represent a set camera angle...I can see how they could get it to work with a rotating camera as well, but right or wrong, it gave me the impression of a fixed camera angle.
Somewhat off topic, but in relation to Denryu/GW Swicord, I do hope that we won't -have- to rotate our cameras whatsoever, except for taking fancy photographs.
That thick line reminds me more of cel-shading than having a set-camera angle. It isn't difficult to render 3D graphics to have a thick border drawn at edges - wherever those edges may be based on viewing angle.
These days, having a set camera angle for something as hyped as Elemental would be committing developer suicide. I'm sure we'll get at least a limited range of motion.
Now, here's somehing I just though of:
Will there be cheats, and will they be "open" like in GC2?
what do cheats have to do with achievements?
That reminds me. Demigod had an "allow cheats" in the beta... whatever happen to that button?
Cheats have nothing to do with achievments. They do, however, have everything to do with questions I want answered, such as:
you know what... I thought I clicked on "last page" of achievements, but I somehow accidently tabbed over to this page, so I thought that was the last page of the achievements thread. I only read from like Luckmann down so my brain didn't question "off topic" discussion because luckmann said he was going off topic. But then you bolded the cheats question was like "Why did he bold that?"
42 (or 00101010)
or 2A
or 1120
The meaning of life is a deck of cards:
There are 52 cards the number of weeks in a year
There are 13 tricks the number of weeks in a quarter
There are 12 picture cards the number of months in a year.
There are 365 spots the number of days in a year.
And fyi if you add up all the numbers on a roulette wheel they add up to 666
I heard this from my 6th grade music teacher: the Devil's number is not 666. It is, in fact, 696...... the text that came from was misinterpereted by the Hollywood crowd.
More information to add to the "teachers are idiots" file...
The origin of 666 greatly predates Hollywood, by about two thousand years.
The book of Revelations, chapter 13, verses 17-18: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
A score is 20. Pick whichever translation you want, that one in particular is from King James. There is argument as to whether 666 is a transcription error, but 696 is pulled from someone's ass recently, probably your teacher's. It would hardly be the first time some numbnut with a general education degree made something up.
There are two very old writings that have it as 616, they may have been right, and they may have been fudged to poke fun at the asshole in chief of the time, no one liked Nero much, his name added up to 616.
I won't touch old-book numerology talk with a ten-span pole, but I will mock modern Hoyle-compliant playing cards as merely a crippled version of the Tarot's minor arcana. Card games, divination (cartomancy), and computer games are lots more fun with things like the major arcana involved.
Nice catch there, psy. I'd give you karma, but the button isn't working....
it does for me. (though the "quote" button doesn't) So I'll give it to him for ya' > correction: no it doesn't... huh
I always wondered how a line like that would be translated if we had changed to a not-base 10 counting system. (like if a super powerful leader had the 6-finger gene, which is a dominant gene over 5 fingers, btw, and changed us to a base 12 system)
They wouldn't have needed to fudge the number to poke fun at Nero - there were two common ways to spell his name in hebrew: one of which adds up to 616 and the other adds up to 666. Still, someone might have fudged it anyway just to cover both spellings
Must be six fingered humans don't breed very often then, huh?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydactyly
six fingers is not a very attractive feature, no... but I wouldn't say they don't breed often. I remember back in high-school our school had some stupid "get to know your classmates" type scavanger hunt and one of the objectives was "find somebody with 6 fingers" to discover they were not that rare. (our school was about 1200 I think, and I want to say 1 of the teachers and 4-5 of the students had* 6 fingers. *=were removed at birth or shortly there after)
I was taught that it was not a particularly gene, its just often people don't know about it because the extra finger is almost always removed at a young age. Wikipedia article posted above says 1 in 500 have the polydactyl gene, which is pretty common if you think about it. (means like a Edit: 10 + million people world wide, right?) I was also taught that the gene that gives a functional 6th digit (rather than just a nub) was usually a sign of African ancestory (interesting sorta fact... I noticed the above wikipedia article does say its more common in blacks, which I guess supports that idea)
This thread is WAY off-topic now and I'm going to continue it.
My girlfriend and I shared a cat in High School (Yes I had a live-in girlfriend in high school, I'm that awesome). And it had too many digits on its paws. They were functional so she just had bigger paws. But she had a litter of kittens and THOSE cats had an entire EXTRA PAW on each limb, and they were functional, too! If you take your hands and put them together at the wrists, it's kind of the best way to describe these monstrosities. Anyway, one would think it's a hindrance for them, but they were able to use them to do pretty amazing things, like stand on the rim of a bucket, and lean WAAAY inside to drink water from it gripping like a clamp with their eight paws..
Last I remember hearing kittens with an extra digit on its paws were more valuable. If what you say is true then those kittens with the extra paws would have brought in some BIG money... if you knew where to sell them.
My questions:
- What sound system are you using? Something like FMOD?
- Who are you getting to do unit/character voices?
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