Hi there,

First of all sorry for my English. It is not my mother tongue

Ben use the voxlap engine for ace of spades right ?

So why the camera is acting weird when you look up or down ? It doesn't in the sample game included in the package when you download the engine. Same thing for voxelstein (another game base on the voxlap engine)

And why you do not make voxels smaller ? The ground would be smoother and a lot prettier. And we would not get tired to jump all the time to climb a hill.
Maybe not like in voxelstein, it's too small. But maybe 5 times smaller ?
Thus the construction cube will consist of 5x5x5 small cubes. And one shot destroy one small voxel.

(oh and by the way, grenades need to be far more lethal to be more realistic)

Cpowa: Making the cubes that much smaller would have the effect of requiring roughly 125 times the initial bandwidth and memory of the current game (5x5x5), as the number of cubes the client would need from the server would increase drastically. And as for the camera 'issues', I assume it's an artistic/realism decision on the behalf of the creator, unless you're talking about something other than the camera bob.

crossbowman5: Memory is not a problem with modern PC.
And yeah the map will be 125 times bigger. We take 5sec to downloap a map. So It will take 10min to download the map. I think it's acceptable but yeah maybe a bit long.
If ben make the cube 3x3x3 it will take only 2minutes !

And for the camera I'm not talking about the bobing but about this: http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/6905/cameraa.png

"THIS" is the engine ... it renders the voxels like that

i think 2x resolution per dimension could be worth a try
only 8x more voxels

but afaik ben did reduce it due to stabilty issues .. or performance
so he tried it but it didnt work well

youse have to consider that voxlap is a really old engine and ken might be a skilled programmer but he isnt perfect and he already said that his engine includes lots of problems
and its yet the first game i know that uses voxlap with multiplayer

plaYer2k: So why the camera is normal in voxelstein and in the sample game of the engine ?

The scale is different that's why

Size of blocks is good now. If this happened, building a simple fort would take alot more effort.

@adrix89: are you sure ? Your explanation sounds strange.

@JesseQ: no because the size of the construction block won't change.

Its not that strange at all, from what I have seen the engine is quirky
To put things into perspective the whole map is equivalent to a Voxelstein door so your basically standing on a door pixel(well voxel actually but you get the idea)

I'd stop playing AoS if the maps were huge and took 2 minutes to load.

I don't think adding another level of detail as long there is some optimizing done like voxelstein does,the weapons and tools would work with the same volumes so there is no problem
The only problem would me map downloading,it would probably need a format change to something like octree
On the plus side easier climbing(and allot prettier)

Maybe there could be a change in how the voxels work. We could divide a Block in 8 (2x2x2) and use 8 bits per block as flags to show which parts of the block do exist. So there would be a Byte more per block. Example:

0000 0000 = Destroyed Block
0000 1111 = Upper Half Destroyed
1111 1111 = Full Block

@LestatV3 good idea

Awesome if its possible