I have another wish CDPR
I have been playing through the master piece that is the witcher 1 and have noted a detail that I think should be in the final game the witcher 3. In the first game during combat, after geralt had hit an enemy, blood would drip from his sword.
the effect was very simple in the game and used the same blood decal as those used for wounds but the results where quite amazing. As Geralt's sword swung in secular motions the blood thrown from the blade would create secular pasterns on the floor. the effect reminded me of the books, and descriptions of Gerlt's very bloody fights, which in the witcher 3, although we now have a particularly gory dismemberment system, feels strangle less violent, less bloody, even if dismemberment is a vast improvement.
Comparatively, between witcher 1 and 3, blood decals in the witcher 3 take seconds to disappear, and you barley have time to notice them before they are gone. the result is that violence seems less permanent thanks to the quick evaporation of blood. however this lack of permanence is the same for disappearing bodies in both in both the witcher 1 and 2, which you have corrected for the witcher 3, bodies now even serving to bait creatures, amazing
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still I feel like the sight of blood dripping from gestalts sword again, would be one that would really impress and add to the feeling of combat as it did in the first game. however the blood that drips from geralt's sword in the witcher 1 does not do so in a realistic way, I don't know how much of a challenge it would be to implement in the witcher 3 in a believable way.
I have been observant enough to see that in the most recent footage shown of the game at PAX, there has been an attempt to do this. blood is thrown from Geralt's sword during the swing but its in the form of a two sided texture that trails out from the end of the sword as it passes through the air. its efficient I'm guessing , and still look ok i guess, but not as dynamic and as interesting as it might have been if it where made using particles, and also cannot be used to paint my walls red with
. which is a shame, because there use to be a really sweet particle based blood effect used in the 35 min demo that came off of the sword.
PAX demo
35 min demo
amazing! water splash by the way.