Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮How am I only just finding out that Fallout 3 Trains were just people wearing a Train for a hat 😅
Credit to @djlink
tan@gamingonlinux @djlink HUH? IM SO CONFUSED
RoboChimera
kaukamieli@gamingonlinux @djlink Nooooo it is actually not.
It just looks like that, but this shit has layers.
It's his right hand. Armor piece technically.
https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-whats-happening-inside-fallout-3s-metro-train/
@kaukamieli @djlink It wasn't meaning they literally in gameplay features have it as a hat, was more laughing at how it's placed...
@gamingonlinux Yea but we can laugh at it twice this way. :P
CrispyUmbrella
Chris Thompson@gamingonlinux I have a vague memory that the rabbits/squirrels/etc wildlife in WoW were also larger objects that ran underground so only the very top was visible, because the system didn't have objects that small?
ampersandrew@gamingonlinux @djlink That's one of those classic game dev stories.
Jono@gamingonlinux @djlink iirc it’s not exactly that, it’s that riding a train EQUIPS the train to the player controller’s head, or something like that.
@gamingonlinux @djlink I mean it’s just a tiny technical distinction- the moving trains running on top of an NPC model vs. the explanation I gave. Both are cool and weird they’re just different gamedev explanations.
Which is a lot of words to say “I was nitpicking”
@djlink @gamingonlinux they’re still train hats!
They’re just worn on the player camera instead of NPC carriers!
They’re just worn on the player camera instead of NPC carriers!
@gamingonlinux @djlink while we’re on the subject, do you know that tables in Skyrim are just bookcases shifted into the ground?
David Amador@jono @gamingonlinux got a whole thread here in case you are interested :) https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@djlink/109313319839796759
David Amador (@[email protected])
Attached: 2 images Skyrim small tables are actually shelves buried. If you can't see it ... (Recreating my list of #gamedev tricks thread)
@djlink @gamingonlinux I love seeing these every time they come up. They’re just a reminder of how human this medium is.
RoBKTA 🏁🏎️✨🎮
@gamingonlinux @djlink and also running REAL FAST UNDERGROUND
I wish I could see it that would crack me up
I wish I could see it that would crack me up
rm -rf ./lee.mccat@gamingonlinux @djlink The engine is so bizarre. There's a room in Skyrim where all the dead bodies are teleported to get them off the map.
Sarah Sims@gamingonlinux @djlink I'll think about this every time I think my programming is too janky.
Jack Nexus 7@gamingonlinux @djlink just thinking about when they are on strike, this is no joke ahahahha
ArqArtur0
Johann Kuste
Liam@gamingonlinux @djlink I don't know how to feel about this 🤣
I think it's actually awesome yet oddly terrifying
Bartaten@gamingonlinux @djlink this is my favourite fact about fallout.
Erno Supersankari@gamingonlinux @djlink I truly love (game)developers :D
@gamingonlinux @djlink
Hahaha That's pretty ingenious ngl!