The last time I heard internally about why we do not have water is that it has to do with the PS3. It is most likely a memory budget problem. However, I do not know the exact technical reason. Only that it had something to do with the PS3.

In this (now famous ) picture,
http://web.ccpgamescdn.com/dust/news.control/65075/1/picture3.png

taken from Corp Tax DEV Blog, i can see a delta wing airplane silhouette (right behind and between "CONTRACT INCOME" and "BATTLE EXPERIENCE" frames) flying above a water like looking surface. Is it taken from test map or static picture made by your artists? Or am i writing BS

Testmap.

Are you sure it the PS3 or just not the game engine. There many game that have water Biggest example GTA on ps3

(...)Testmap.

In this (now famous ) picture,
http://web.ccpgamescdn.com/dust/news.control/65075/1/picture3.png

taken from Corp Tax DEV Blog, i can see a delta wing airplane silhouette (right behind and between "CONTRACT INCOME" and "BATTLE EXPERIENCE" frames) flying above a water like looking surface. Is it taken from test map or static picture made by your artists? Or am i writing BS

The last time I heard internally about why we do not have water is that it has to do with the PS3. It is most likely a memory budget problem. However, I do not know the exact technical reason. Only that it had something to do with the PS3.

With... animated water you can sink into?


What other wunderstuff do you have on that test map? Is it a map that is being tested prior to release or your private map for testing stuff? C'mon tell us. The beans have already been spilled

Thanx for your generosity with providing info to us :thumbup

It's just some testmap mostly programmers and game designers use... to test things. It typically has all sorts of technical broken rules in it. It is something that would never be released.

dangit

It wouldn't really be any fun hehe. Imagine driving around on lots of flat terrains, and broken ancient old sockets, and water planes with no water physics under them, etc etc. Sure might be fun for some, but I could see that getting boring really fast. I also don't think you would be able to call in vehicles. It needs to have a navmesh built for that (for the RDV).

I do know the joys of goofing around in developer testmaps for a few hours though. I do that with other games I own once in a great while.

Yeah, it's actually quite terrifying walking through a hole in the map that causes you to fall through and get caught in an endless fall loop.

But we have(had?) "liquid" areas in maps. There is(was?) an underground pool filled with some kind of acid? On skirmish map. I jumped once there. My HP began to drop quickly. Is that place with liquid physics or just kind of "hologram material" with HP penalty? Can't find this structure on any map now. But i bet i saw this once on Spine Crescent Ambush map. It had yellow/green/translucent hue to it... But I didn't jump into it that time.

I think it's at Manus Peak Skirmish map @L12 (something green there)
http://web.ccpgamescdn.com/newssystem/media/64656/1/ManusPeak_skirmish.jpg

You are probably thinking of large outpost that has it which would be Biomass, also a couple of small sockets have it. They have physics volumes that cause damage but no under water effects. It's just a material on a plane. Not a "real" water system basically.

You are probably thinking of large outpost that has it which would be Biomass, also a couple of small sockets have it. They have physics volumes that cause damage but no under water effects. It's just a material on a plane. Not a "real" water system basically.

Why not use the same technique for small shallow lakes and stuff? We don't need to be able to swim through it, it doesn't need to be deep, just something to add some visual variety.