Well i think they planned it to be some kind of voxel mechanic but have never read that you would be able to manipulate water would be pretty awesome if it would work,
Well i think they planned it to be some kind of voxel mechanic but have never read that you would be able to manipulate water would be pretty awesome if it would work,
If I remember correctly from the Q&A they kind've addressed this by saying if you tunnel underground - say under a city - and you hit a water table, then you'll just die and the tunnel will close and flood. I imagine that it would operate the same for if you attempted to tunnel under a river? There is every possibility I heard that wrong though haha
Posted By Magykstorm at 12:05 AM - Fri May 12 2017
If I remember correctly from the Q&A they kind've addressed this by saying if you tunnel underground - say under a city - and you hit a water table, then you'll just die and the tunnel will close and flood. I imagine that it would operate the same for if you attempted to tunnel under a river? There is every possibility I heard that wrong though haha
It seems like the most logical and easy to program solution for sure. More logical, if less entertaining, than flying rivers at any rate. :D
Kind of disappointing, as diverting rivers would allow more flexibility when it comes to colonization.
Dynamic fluids are an enormously resource intensive collection of processes. As much as I'd love to see an open world with rivers you can divert, canals and irrigation trenches you can dig, it's just not going to happen current technology.
I'd imagine the solution will either be to kill the player and close the tunnel, depositing their corpse further up the way, or to simply disable digging under and too close to rivers and waterways.
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would be neat but i'm not disappointed. water manipulation ads a whole new level of greifing into the game. though the intention would be good the general player base would ruin it.
Oh, also one small thing - the Soulborn engine directs the storytelling, quest generation, events et cetera. The world engine, what generates the physical world, the lighting, is Unreal Engine 4, and the physics engine is Havok (build into Unreal).
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The water manipulation is a little different than your describing in the opening post. It's not that it can't change, it's that is can't "manipulate".
Basically meaning if you dig a canal into a water source, you won't see water drain into the canal and fill up while the water source lowers based on the amount that was removed from it.
I have experience in creating other games back when Half Life 2 was a popular game to Mod, and water was a similar issue back then.... but that doesn't mean you could never hide or disguise what was happening to make a similar effect.
So for example, if you dug the canal and connected it to a water source, in theory you could tell the game to create a new section of water (a box with a water texture), and spawn this at the bottom of the canal, which quickly rises to the level of the water source, and then stops raising. All the time there is a sprite effect of spilling water in between the old water source and the new canal. The original water would not move in the slightest, but it would give the appearance of overflowing. There would be no water manipulation happening, just new water being added to an area.
The same effect would work for the example described in the OP, but on a much bigger scale.... however it would probably never get to that point as the water would never appear to be floating.
I'm not saying SBS would do it this way, it would just be one way of doing a water filling effect without actually having water manipulation.
The mistake most people make about water in games is that they think the water is actually moving, when it isn't, it's just an animated texture, the water itself stays still and is unmoving
