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Offline EskimoJoe

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Hills under Town disappear - F3
« on: July 24, 2010, 05:03:18 AM »
I was checking out the town offline, and decided to crash into the Cafe. Then on the ground, I went into F3 view mode to see the remains of my aircraft, and noticed the camera went though the ground as if it wasn't a solid object.

I managed to do this by panning down while viewing in F3. I went offline again to recreate this situation, it's 0130 and I figured pictures would be better than my slurred words in text form. These shots were taken at the town of field A1 on the ndisles map.

Headin' to town


Finding a parking space


Good road-block


Here's the bug, #1


#2


My view from the cockpit

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Offline EskimoJoe

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Re: Hills under Town disappear - F3
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2010, 08:16:22 PM »
Just curious - Anyone at HTC make a note of this?
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Offline AWwrgwy

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Re: Hills under Town disappear - F3
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2010, 08:31:00 PM »
Just curious - Anyone at HTC make a note of this?

It's been that way for as long as I can remember.  As long as you don't find a hole to fall through I don't see a problem.

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Re: Hills under Town disappear - F3
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2010, 09:43:31 PM »
So there's no problem if a GV battle is raging inside town and someone decides to crash, F3, and let their buddies know if there's a tank around the next corner? Right.
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Re: Hills under Town disappear - F3
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2010, 02:02:55 AM »
So there's no problem if a GV battle is raging inside town and someone decides to crash, F3, and let their buddies know if there's a tank around the next corner? Right.

Why would you want to?
You can just fly around the town and let your buddies know where the enemy is.  :)
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Re: Hills under Town disappear - F3
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2010, 02:05:55 AM »
So there's no problem if a GV battle is raging inside town and someone decides to crash, F3, and let their buddies know if there's a tank around the next corner? Right.

That's very clever.  You're much more underhanded than I.   :angel:


Why would you want to?
You can just fly around the town and let your buddies know where the enemy is.  :)

Must be smoke.  It would obscure the view from above.  Hence, the view from below would be needed.

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Re: Hills under Town disappear - F3
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2010, 08:43:33 PM »
Earlier today I bailed out over town and went into the map room, fell into a hole and was then
trapped under the town while a battle raged above me.

My pistol was registering hit sprites on an nmy M3. Never got a chance to try it on an nmy trooper.
I could see everything going on above yet could not find a way out.
I did record vid of it.
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Re: Hills under Town disappear - F3
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2010, 09:14:39 PM »
Basically comes down to layers and having to build town on a second level so the map room can be below the perceived ground level. Used to see them alot in FPS like Ghost Recon and Joint Ops. Probably a transparency issue with the texture.  :salute

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Re: Hills under Town disappear - F3
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2010, 09:14:05 AM »
We can make those polygons double sided where you can't see through them.