Line of sight

[Gonar]

Well I haven't even started playing yet and yes im a mega omfg noob in this game but I've still noticed that many don't like that people have eyes in their backs so I would like to make a proposal that owuld change that.

I know, I know this game is in beta stage and so on and that theres so much work already going on but just listen to me ok?


I belive that you should have a line of sight like in some other RPGs (Which i do not remember the names of )

Let's say you are looking straight forward at a tree, your line of sight should be about a 3rd of the entire circle around you ;


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The part behind your and around the line of sight should be colured grey and you should only see the things you saw when you pasted that area.

An alternative and more easy thing to program would be that you only see the items and the ground but no living things.

I hope you got what i menth cause I aint to good in explaining technical things in english.



OOT: It was kinda hard to draw without so many lines cause of the forum pushes back everything to the begining of the post but I hope you get that the middle thingy is the line of sight and all around it is the "grey" part. Also remember this aint the right angle or anything it's just so that you can have a picture in your head of what i mean.

[martin]

An alternative and more easy thing to program would be that you only see the items and the ground but no living things.

This already was implemented in the first Illarion-version ever and it is still there.

Martin

[Gonar]

Then why did some people post that "it seems that people have eyes in their backs" and that therfore thiefs and assasins cant sneak uppon the victims without beeing seen.

EDIT: From the screenshots I do not see that the grey thingy part exists.

EDIT 2: http://illarion.org/illarion/screenshot ... attack.jpg

Here you see everything happening around you... this means that you must be talking about something ellse... becuse you trully on the screenshot see both behind and infront of your character.

[Galim]

this was already discussed on the illarion reallife meeting. that you can't see persons behind you. it was discussed and as far as i remember it will be implented in a later client version. you may correct me martin if i am wrong with that.

[martin]

Then why did some people post that "it seems that people have eyes in their backs" and that therfore thiefs and assasins cant sneak uppon the victims without beeing seen.

I was refering to trees and walls blocking the view. Not that you can see behind your back.

EDIT: From the screenshots I do not see that the grey thingy part exists.

True. That is because we were not talking about some grey thingy but about that you see items on the floor but not monsters/persons. Just read what I have quoted.

Martin