Duration of blood splatter

[fkcoffee]

Hello, I'm trying to increase the duration of blood splatter on Chuck.

Thanks for any help available.

[anno1404]

Interesting idea. I would guess the sgraph.txt. file.

Decided to add a picture for this thread. Here is blood splattered Frank

SPOILER: Click to show

[fkcoffee]

Thanks, I'll try to look at that.

[anno1404]

Apr 26, 2011 20:00:48 GMT -5 fkcoffee said:

Thanks, I'll try to look at that.

No one has investigated this yet, (I searched) limb explosion is the closest I can think of.

BloodEffectID

For example: sgraph under chef, cNPCAIAnimationState 7 battle_chef_interaction_taste_test30734

cBodyEffectsEvent 230061031
{
Time = 2.100000
Duration = 0.000000
BoneName = "BONE_RIGHT_HAND"
BloodEffectID = 318
UseImpactEffect = "false"
}

There are 129 BloodEffectID entries.

BloodSquirtSprayHeavy.sfx


OTHERS in sgraph.txt:

cHashAudioAnimEvent -832197518
{
Time = 0.760001
Duration = 0.000000
Type = "vocal"
AssetName = "fx_main.big/BloodSquirtSprayHeavy.sfx"
PlaybackPercentage = 0
}
Only this one entry: BloodSquirtSprayHeavy.sfx

BloodEffectID

Also:

cAudioAnimEvent -966575851
{
Time = 0.721000
Duration = 0.000000
Type = "motion"
AssetName = "BodyFallBloody"
PlaybackPercentage = 0
}

BodyFallBloody 34 entries.

[fkcoffee]

Thanks for the info.

I boosted all instances of "Time" and "Duration" in sgraph, unfortunately the blood still faded away. The gameplay changes were pretty interesting though.

Also changed BloodEffectID = 0 for all, but there weren't any visible changes.

Hmm.

[anno1404]

Apr 26, 2011 23:31:00 GMT -5 fkcoffee said:

Thanks for the info.

I boosted all instances of "Time" and "Duration" in sgraph, unfortunately the blood still faded away. The gameplay changes were pretty interesting though.

Please share, what were the results? Please take a minute to set up email alerts so we can always talk!

[fkcoffee]

Hi, sure thing.

Increasing the time setting created a buffer for your actions, so if you hit the attack button, you can actually exit out of the animation by doing something else, eg. running, jumping.
With a long time setting, your strikes wouldn't actually hit.

The duration just created a lot of waiting after each action.

It would be interesting for gameplay balance changes.

[anno1404]

Apr 27, 2011 19:34:32 GMT -5 fkcoffee said:

Hi, sure thing.

Increasing the time setting created a buffer for your actions, so if you hit the attack button, you can actually exit out of the animation by doing something else, eg. running, jumping.
With a long time setting, your strikes wouldn't actually hit.

The duration just created a lot of waiting after each action.

It would be interesting for gameplay balance changes.

Can you give a coding example? that is awesome. I need to change the clothing emote, that would be nice to get rid of the clothing emote.

[fkcoffee]

Hmm, that's an interesting possibility; I'll try and see if it affects the clothing animations as well.

I simply replace all instances of
"Time = .*" with "Time = 9999.00000"
"Duration = .*" with "Duration = 9999.00000"

using regular expressions.

eg.
cBodyEffectsEvent 230061028
{
Time = 0.950000
Duration = 0.000000
BoneName = "BONE_RIGHT_HAND"
BloodEffectID = 318
UseImpactEffect = "false"
}

[fkcoffee]

Hmm, can't seem to re-create the buffered exit (it was the hold attack of the spiked glove). Must have been lucky with one of the time settings used.

[anno1404]

Apr 28, 2011 19:25:10 GMT -5 fkcoffee said:

Hmm, can't seem to re-create the buffered exit (it was the hold attack of the spiked glove). Must have been lucky with one of the time settings used.

thanks for trying, good information none the less.

[fkcoffee]

Thanks for the help! I'll investigate this a bit more.