Kong_KK
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posted 29 January 2002 06:36 PM
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Yeah, I think it really sucks that they are only limiting day and night to scenarios only. I think it would r0x0r if they would have in-game transitions. I can understand though that they may not have the resources to do that though. I don't understand why they won't allow an option to set what time of day it is when you start a random map or multiplayer though.
BrazilianRaider
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posted 29 January 2002 08:22 PM
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i've read somewhere (don't remember where though) that night would be a GP that would decrease buildings LOS but it probably has been cut out...
BrazilianRaider
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posted 29 January 2002 09:11 PM
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you missed our point...
we didn't say that night had been cut out because of LOS..
it just was an ES idea to make a GD that would darken all the map decreasing buildings LOS... that would be good for like sneaking some vills and start building a castle (or fortress) next to your enemy's gold mine or something...
This idea might have gotten cut out... get it now??
BrazilianRaider
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posted 29 January 2002 09:48 PM
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i'm all for having an option to choose wether you want all day, all night or transitions from 10 to 10 minutes...
Kong_KK
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posted 29 January 2002 09:55 PM
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I guess it all depends if ES can spend the time to do it or not. I wouldn't think it would be that hard. The game already has night coded into it, I don't see why they wouldn't be able to add a little drop down menu when you setup games to select something like "Standard (Day)", "Sunrise", "Sunset", "Night". Then when the game is setting up, the skybox would be set to a certain texture and lighting. This is from an fps perspective though so I don't have a clue how long it would take them.
robdude11
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posted 29 January 2002 10:16 PM
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i don't think it would be hard for ES to add a menu to change day/night, but i don't think it would work too well because there are no transitions. with transitions, it would make sense, but without, i just don't see it being very realistic to be playing the whole game at night, or dawn, or dusk. playing during the day has been a standard for most rts games.
robdude11
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posted 29 January 2002 10:30 PM
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yes, well u could do that, but then you'd have to draw the graphics for the transitions.