NTTR Vegas People

[WindWpn]

Flying around low and slow over Vegas is awesome and really sets the bar for modern flight sims, even beyond the combat arena!

 

The civilian traffic is top notch for a bustling major metro area and the feeling of a ton of life below is really nice. However...., where are the people? Beyond complex animations similar to Orbx PeopleFlow, perhaps something along the line of object enhancement. For example one of the major hotels feature a rooftop swimming pool, though there are no bikini clad loungers. Also, I have seen many outdoor cafe tables where the seats are empty. Perhaps the model could be duplicated and enhanced to have a few people sitting around the table? Additionally, parked cars. Perhaps a few models could be updated/duplicated to feature a person standing next to car or interacting with car in some fashion. Perhaps, long term, civilian foot traffic along pedestrian walkways, etc..

 

Indeed, DCS is a combat simulation at heart; however, NTTR and the presentation of Vegas has really opened opportunities for enhancing a more robust civilian flow/feel beyond vehicles on the road/highways and parking garages/lots. As I explored the city from the Blackshark, it seems that only the "people" were missing.

 

A wishlist enhancement for future urban renderings.

[NineLine]

I would like to see placeable civilian people, who you could change their 'skin' like other objects in the sim, but I am not sure its possible to completely fill a city with inhabitants. Even the civilian car traffic right now has its own hit on performance, probably a while to go before we can have bustling cities with foot traffic :)

[Lucky]

Perhaps we could have just the people on the corners passing out strip joint flyers and the prostitutes on the walkway between The Excalibur and NYNY

[WindWpn]

Perhaps a start would simply be a few current object updates to include people?

 

Good candidates could be a few parked cars models, those cafe tables we see peppered throughout the city, and that one big hotel rooftop pool. The hotel roof top pool should have at least some eye candy for the peeping helo driver! :)

[NineLine]

Perhaps a start would simply be a few current object updates to include people?

 

Good candidates could be a few parked cars models, those cafe tables we see peppered throughout the city, and that one big hotel rooftop pool. The hotel roof top pool should have at least some eye candy for the peeping helo driver! :)

 

It would be cool if it could be done, it would had a lot of immersion, but on the other hand, the traffic that is oblivious to combat going on around them breaks that very same immersion :)

 

Thats why placeable ones could be cool, have them so they scattered if anyone started firing anything :)

 

Either way though, I agree, would be great to have someday.

[wolle]

Am I right that civilian traffic in Las Vegas cannot be turned off? I have "Civilian Traffic" as "Off" in my options, but there are still many, many cars driving around Vegas. Is it that this option only applies to civilian traffic outside LV?

[NineLine]

Am I right that civilian traffic in Las Vegas cannot be turned off? I have "Civilian Traffic" as "Off" in my options, but there are still many, many cars driving around Vegas. Is it that this option only applies to civilian traffic outside LV?

 

Its a known bug, not working as intended I believe.

[Tello]

Yes, Save the citizens from a zombie epidemic. I can just imagine the poster for such a campaign: One man, one brrrrrt of chance to save the human race!

 

We never know if DCS will rule all other simulators one day and truly be the only Digital Combat Simulator with all aspects of war. I would love to run around as footsoldier playing the jtac role and see the zombies die as I order one brrrt of freedom! Only to be picked up by a human controlled Huey and flown to the top of Nevadas highest mountain where I will scream "I am the king of the digital combat world!!!" :gun_smilie:

[WindWpn]

It would be cool if it could be done, it would had a lot of immersion, but on the other hand, the traffic that is oblivious to combat going on around them breaks that very same immersion :)

 

Thats why placeable ones could be cool, have them so they scattered if anyone started firing anything :)

 

Either way though, I agree, would be great to have someday.

 

Yea, if one day there is an Edge map featuring an urban combat centerpiece, indeed, the civilian models would require a reactionary response.

 

Ironically, in Vegas, likely if combat did erupt there in some alternative universe, likely many of the civilian population actually may not react/know what is going on (especially the roof top pool babes)! :smilewink: