Dalmasca Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 I'm loving the game, but it's kind of annoying to not have a day/night cycle on the planets. It seems like something that should come standard with the game. I think seeing early morning coruscant would be awesome. As would watching the sun go down on Alderaan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shortwave Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 I'm loving the game, but it's kind of annoying to not have a day/night cycle on the planets. It seems like something that should come standard with the game. I think seeing early morning coruscant would be awesome. As would watching the sun go down on Alderaan No. Enjoy the voice acting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YooYooMa Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 (edited) This isn't Burger King, you can't have it your way. Ya, I think I got your point. If you want daylight, go to Taris. If you want nighttime, go to Nar Shadaa. If you want sunset, go outside. If you want to run up a moutain, go outside. Other than that, strap on your lightsaber and do something productive for the gaming community instead of crying about sunsets on a video game. :cool::cool: Edited January 3, 2012 by YooYooMa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreossk Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Sorry, due to budget concerns, immersion couldn't be added to the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalmasca Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share Posted January 3, 2012 This isn't Burger King, you can't have it your way. Ya, I think I got your point. If you want daylight, go to Taris. If you want nighttime, go to Nar Shadaa. If you want sunset, go outside. If you want to run up a moutain, go outside. Other than that, strap on your lightsaber and do something productive for the gaming community instead of crying about sunsets on a video game. :cool::cool: No crying whatsoever...You may have noticed I said I'm loving the game. Just remarking on something that would be enjoyable to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shortwave Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 No crying whatsoever...You may have noticed I said I'm loving the game. Just remarking on something that would be enjoyable to see. It's no use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarfux Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 well I believe it will come in the future. It will be very very hard though with the programming the huge worlds. It can be done. Will it? I believe in time it will patience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kairushi Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Just pretend its the orbit of the planet you are on. Not all planets will have a 24 day / night cycle and 365 day year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalmasca Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share Posted January 3, 2012 I do love pandas! I think I'll stick with this though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kourage Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 It'd take too much work with the way they did the art & all that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranberries Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Day and night is usually a big plot point when you focus on a story. ^____^'' It's okay though! Of the $300 mil they had to make this game they spent $295 mil on voice acting and the rest of the game was made with bargain basement deals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vazorath Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 If I recall correctly Bioware said they wanted it, but then changed their minds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kleinone Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Ya if I could change one thing to make the game more immersive, it would be to add day/night cycles. I just got used to them in other single player RP games/mmos and now I kinda miss em. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shortwave Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 If I recall correctly Bioware said they wanted it, but then changed their minds. Haha, see the post directly above yours, it meshes quite nicely with what you have said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarka Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 (edited) well I believe it will come in the future. It will be very very hard though with the programming the huge worlds. It can be done. Will it? I believe in time it will patience Actually the tech to allow for day/night cycles is built into the HeroEngine. It'd take too much work with the way they did the art & all that. I know that Bioware mumbled some excuses, but I don't believe that it would be "too much work" for one second. From the 45 levels I've seen, not one single scene relies on a particular time of day or night. Other games seem to have cut-scenes and yet can allow for day/night cycles just fine. Plus, the ability to allow for Day cycles are apparently built into the tech already. Edited January 3, 2012 by Tarka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaick Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 The only sunset that was going on star wars related was SWG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikalonius Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 I'm loving the game, but it's kind of annoying to not have a day/night cycle on the planets. It seems like something that should come standard with the game. I think seeing early morning coruscant would be awesome. As would watching the sun go down on Alderaan Direct light sources look horrible and are recourse intensive. In order to have even a day and night, let alone dawn and dusk, you would have to at least double the size of the texture file to accomodate all the "night" textures, since all the rendering is done beforehand in what they call "baking" so that less rendering has to be done real time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarka Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 (edited) Direct light sources look horrible and are recourse intensive. In order to have even a day and night, let alone dawn and dusk, you would have to at least double the size of the texture file to accomodate all the "night" textures, since all the rendering is done beforehand in what they call "baking" so that less rendering has to be done real time. You sound like you know a little about this stuff. Is that what is happening in this video? Is the HeroEngine using different day and night textures in that video? Edited January 3, 2012 by Tarka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kleinone Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 (edited) Ya a small dev house like EA/bioware wouldn't have those kinds of resources to implement stuff like that. That kind of stuff is reserved for massive dollar development project mmo's like Darkfall and Mortal online. Edited January 3, 2012 by Kleinone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarka Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Ya a small dev house like EA wouldn't have those kinds of resources to implement stuff like that. That kind of stuff is reserved for massive dollar development project mmo's like Darkfall and Mortal online. Not to mention: VanguardAOCAnarchy OnlineSWGWoWFFIX (I believe) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DecimaPoiuytr Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 (edited) People say it saps the immersion but really how does having a static earth-based day/light cycle make any sense at all when you're traveling between planets with drastically different solar cycles, moons, planets with multiple suns, deep space, etc. It's fine as it is I say; if anything a day/light cycle makes LESS sense. Edited January 3, 2012 by DecimaPoiuytr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalmasca Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share Posted January 3, 2012 People say it saps the immersion but really how does having a static earth-based day/light cycle make any sense at all when you're traveling between planets with drastically different solar cycles, moons, planets with multiple suns, etc. It's fine as it is I say. I'm not saying they should all have the same cycle...at all. I'm saying they should each have one. There's no reason for them to be the same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarka Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 (edited) People say it saps the immersion but really how does having a static earth-based day/light cycle make any sense at all when you're traveling between planets with drastically different solar cycles, moons, planets with multiple suns, etc. It's fine as it is I say. Well, apparently the HeroEngine can have different environment settings for each "zone". And Day/night cycles are part of those environment settings. You can apparently set up different day/night cycle durations for each "zone" as well. Meaning that a day/night cycle in one zone could be 24 hours long, whereas another could be only 2 hours long. So, if we think of each planet in the game being a collection of zones, this infers that each planet could conceivably have a day/night cycle with a duration that is different to the others. As for multiple suns, I've checked this before now, there are only 2 planets in the game with 2 suns. Tatooine and Balsavis. And you'll note that currently even though you see 2 suns on Tatooine, you only get one shadow. So that really isn't a big issue. Edited January 3, 2012 by Tarka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kleinone Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Not to mention: VanguardAOCAnarchy OnlineSWGWoWFFIX (I believe) Nice list sir. I forgot about Anarchy online and SWG. Didn't play any of the other ones. But I think it makes a fair point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ogitrev Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 No crying whatsoever...You may have noticed I said I'm loving the game. Just remarking on something that would be enjoyable to see. Dont worry about such comments man. Whenever someone tries to bring up anything remotely close to "I wish they had" or "It would be cool if" or "I want this in the game" type of threads someone/several people come in and call you a crybaby, whiner, WoW fanboy etc. It seems anything constructive or things that us paying customers would like or would of liked to seen is met with negativety even if your preface that you like the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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