Special Forces

[wbcninjaofmist]

I was checking out some info about the expansion pack special forces here

http://cbs.sportsline.com/games/story/8866303 And I thought this was very interesting:

"However, one of the biggest changes to tactics will be the dynamic lighting, which will change the landscape from day to night, adding a whole element of stealth to gameplay. Luckily, players will have night vision goggles handy!"

I was wondering if anyone is familiar with dynamic lighting. Does what is said here imply that during battle the maps will be changing from day to night?"which would be frikin sweet! Or is it implying that there are night and day light maps. which is nothing spectacular imo.

[Vasquez]

Re: Special Forces

I believe that some areas of the SF maps are dark, and other's (such as a car-park) have bright lights, meaning that you'll need the goggles in some places, but need to take them off in others, so it's not just a pure-darkness frag-fest.

[rombaft]

Re: Special Forces

look up on google for HDR , you will find everything you want about dynamic lighting

[Aegis2a]

Re: Special Forces

in most video games the lighting is baked into the textures.
In dynamic lighting the light is calculated on the fly onto the textures. This means that when you walk into a shadow the character will get dark as well. And when you walk into a bright spot your character will get brighter too.

[big_sammy_b]

Re: Special Forces

Any actual date set yet for release? Something other than just 'november' ?

[Sneaky Assassin]

Re: Special Forces

Any actual date set yet for release? Something other than just 'november' ?

25th November for UK think it's 21st for US

[big_sammy_b]

Re: Special Forces

bah they always release things like that right at the end of the month...

[Jesse]

Re: Special Forces

I can't wait until the graphics settings making the dynamic lighting category low and make everything visible, and then 75% of players are going to say screw seeing dark areas, they just can't live without that extra advantage.