[The E]

Yeah, why aren't they doing GPU-accelerated particle physics there

[Luis Dias]

All the poor souls at nvidia developing CUDA and the likes... only to be ignored by wine cup physic developers. SAD!

[BlueFlames]

When you have 40,000 employees and your eye-stabilization routine is finished, what else are you supposed to work on besides zero-g liquid physics?  You just don't understand game development.

[Grizzly]

I can envision a future  where Star Citizen has solved all sorts of small and big problems in gaming (and possibly physics simulation in general) except the bits that involve releasing a playable game.

eg half the programmers on SC are doing this:


The other half are busy with existential dread.

Those two halves may be overlapping, in which case I have no idea what the undefined bit is doing. They probably left and are still on the books because the project leads are too busy daydreaming to notice that half their staff is missing.

[Luis Dias]

...besides zero-g liquid physics?

omg I can't wait for zero g liquid physics and the absolute space bending gameplay of getting all wine droplets into my 30000 polygon-designed mouth.

i hope they use machine learning to cope with the viscosity problems associated with it, don't want to give wrong solutions to such a beautiful problem.

anything worse than this quality below is unadmissable u hear me cR?

[The E]

Star Citizen is not complete until it has achieved MAXIMUM IMMERSION. In LIQUIDS.

[StarSlayer]

https://youtu.be/I_rSQGavuiI?t=212

CIG focusing on the important **** imo.



Core gameplay not finalized yet but by god are the drinks going to react to gravity properly.

The ability to accurately model the water to wine conversion is core functionality for "The Jesus Patch."

[Luis Dias]

i haven't seen ships being able to swim in muh procedural planets wtf is that about come on what crap is this I can't believe this ****.

[The E]

i haven't seen ships being able to swim in muh procedural planets wtf is that about come on what crap is this I can't believe this ****.

Exactly, if you can't tell that a fleet crashlanded in the oceans on the other side of the planet by measuring the waves, *what is even the point*

[Grizzly]

Slightly off topic aside: The water physics in Battlefield 4 being synced across all 64 players in multiplayer combined with the wavemaking caused by, say, the storms, the wakes of the ships of other players or a skyscraper coming down was great. Esp. since you could use them for cover if you were driving a jetski.

(So yeah DICE got there first).

[Aesaar]

Impossible.  Nothing in Star Citizen has been done before.  Stop spreading FUD.

[Mikes]

Impossible.  Nothing in Star Citizen has been done before.  Stop spreading FUD.

SC put the water in a glass! I bet Battlefield didn't do that!!!! Hah!

[Colonol Dekker]

They (battlefield) released a finished single player campaign. 

[Grizzly]

They've released multiple ones, even

(although, aside from the opening mission of Battlefield 1, they aren't very good)

[Akalabeth Angel]

Does Squadron 42 have a release date yet? A new trailer? Wasn't it supposed to be out in 2016?

[Mikes]

They (battlefield) released a finished single player campaign. 

SC doesn t do things that have been done before!

Releasing campaigns is so yesterday!

[Aesaar]

Does Squadron 42 have a release date yet? A new trailer? Wasn't it supposed to be out in 2016?

Wow, more FUD.  How was SQ42 supposed to release in 2016 if the game didn't start development until they made Lumberyard in partnership with Amazon in December 2016?  Everything before that was just conceptual.  Development's only been going for 8 months and they about to have a huge Jesus Module release.

Thank you CIG.

[Hades]

What's also great about that modeled liquid is it doesn't even look good or right.  with some of the movement they show off a ****load of the liquid would have exited the glass and spilled everywhere. Still better than their flight model or their USB-liquefying updater though.

[Spoon]

I'm 100% sure about my theory on these cup liquids. Croberts saw the few mocking comments made by goons about the liquid in the glass not moving, in the gamescom demo from last year. So of course he has to prove everyone wrong and aim for maximum fidelity.
https://youtu.be/GucYhhLwIxg?t=22m47s


Because this is a top priority thing for a game that is janky as all hell and doesn't even have 10% of its core gameplay implented.

[Buckshee Rounds]

Does Squadron 42 have a release date yet? A new trailer? Wasn't it supposed to be out in 2016?

Wow, more FUD.  How was SQ42 supposed to release in 2016 if the game didn't start development until they made Lumberyard in partnership with Amazon in December 2016?  Everything before that was just conceptual.  Development's only been going for 8 months and they about to have a huge Jesus Module release.

Thank you CIG.

I'm 100% sure about my theory on these cup liquids. Croberts saw the few mocking comments made by goons about the liquid in the glass not moving, in the gamescom demo from last year. So of course he has to prove everyone wrong and aim for maximum fidelity.
https://youtu.be/GucYhhLwIxg?t=22m47s

Because this is a top priority thing for a game that is janky as all hell and doesn't even have 10% of its core gameplay implented.

It's encouraging to know that game development is driven by Goons' trolling. Finally I understand how it all works!

I've always wondered how they could possibly be building missions for SQ42 when the flight mechanics and core gameplay are constantly shifting. Either they haven't been working on the actual gameplay aspects of SQ42 or whatever they've built so far has to be reworked. Given CIG's past history, either of those scenarios is equally likely.