(WIP) JTD Blood

[dmarkwick 261]

So I've been working on a blood addon, based on an early build of Zooloo75's own blood addon (with permission ofc ;)). I've branched off completely and it will be following a different outlook. For example, I will not be adding in dismemberment, vapourisation, gibs etc. It will be blood only.

It has directional blood spray based on direction of incoming fire, bleeding for some time after being hit, and a blood flow that occurs when you die (bleedout). I made a short video on the latter:

(Compression has lost a lot of blood texture detail, and the dripping pfx are unclear. It looks much better with the detail :()

 

I need to change some textures (example the bleedout flow texture), add some smearing textures for when units go prone while bleeding, and some proper blood dripping texture. Possibly do some geometry checking so blood doesn't flow under brick walls etc.

 

Let me know what you think :) although I tend not to do requests, I am open to suggestion ;)

 

Some pics, with some pics with blood flow displayed with different textures.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v15/DMarkwick/arma3%202016-05-15%2014-11-19-72_zpspcun2lpm.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v15/DMarkwick/arma3%202016-05-08%2021-35-23-10_zpsqixtr2fa.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v15/DMarkwick/arma3%202016-05-15%2021-47-42-36_zpshmqiirgn.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v15/DMarkwick/arma3%202016-05-17%2001-04-57-29_zpsk8a3vc4e.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v15/DMarkwick/arma3%202016-05-15%2021-18-23-32_zpsbliwluhv.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v15/DMarkwick/arma3%202016-05-13%2000-47-08-05_zpsi8g6h1kh.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v15/DMarkwick/arma3%202016-05-15%2018-15-34-38_zpsh1aacbup.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v15/DMarkwick/arma3%202016-05-08%2021-41-46-48_zpsyh8xpaj8.jpg

[ineptaphid 6413]

Looks great for those who want a bit more subtelty-like you said, no gibbing ;)  How are you getting on putting it into game-and are there any performance issues from something like this?

[dmarkwick 261]

Hi ineptaphid. I've been making this with performance in mind, I made some simplifications and the animation only occurs when someone is close enough to see it, otherwise it is just placed down. As it currently stands I don't notice any performance drop. If I have huge amounts of AI all fighting then I get some - but I get that regardless without the addon :) I don't notice any addon-related slowdown.

[stu81 45]

Any multi-player/ dedicated server plans?

This will look awesome on Omaha beach :/

[Hate 232]

Noice. While the gibbing is amusing I find it has no place in a 'realistic' game like Arma 3. This will be a valued alternative to Blood Lust.

 

Not that I don't love Blood Lust already.

[roberthammer 582]

It looks cool but i would slow that down and maybe tone it down at little bit - maybe too much blood going away :P

[dmarkwick 261]

Any multi-player/ dedicated server plans?

This will look awesome on Omaha beach :/

SP for the time being, I'd need to consider a MP method of transmitting effects without creating all objects. So it would be like smoke/explosion pfx, kind of looks the same on each machine but each machine will in reality have small differences.

 

It looks cool but i would slow that down and maybe tone it down at little bit - maybe too much blood going away :P

I ramped it up for the video :) it is less blood, and slower flow. Most of the effect is actually blood spray and bleed (i.e. not flow)

[Nic0Bellic 12]

Would love to play some coop with this.

[zeealex 2029]

WOW! this looks fantastic! can't wait to give this a try! :D

here is my totally useless but nevertheless worth giving seal of approval:

[stephsen 79]

god dmarkwick, that looks fantastic,...and nice to see you back :)

[ValentinBk (DayZ) 0]

Looks great, thanks for making this.

I was wondering if it's possible to have blood appear on the character at the point of impact instead of the generic texture replacement.

[zooloo75 834]

That flow effect is fucking awesome! Outstanding Dmarkwick!

I like the theme you're going for. Can't wait to try this out!

[operative spaz 10]

That looks awesome! Can't wait to try it!

[morthon 152]

Super impressive! Finally a realistic blood addon :D Any chance you could make a demo vid showing the default rate of bleeding? Will you make it configurable by userconfig?

Cheers and thanks for doing this!

[dmarkwick 261]

Super impressive! Finally a realistic blood addon :D Any chance you could make a demo vid showing the default rate of bleeding? Will you make it configurable by userconfig?

 

Rate of bleeding is pretty much arbitrary within very small boundries. However, as more wounds mean more bleeding then the more wounded you are the more bleeding there is. If you get fragged by a grenade and somehow survive, you can leave a huge amount of blood for the duration (check out the poor sod in one of the last screenshots I put up in the first post. I am replacing prone bleed textures with smeared ones so it will look less like a Jackson Pollock :)). Each wound will bleed for a determined but random amount, and will also bleed less as time goes on. So the effect is a diminishing blood trail.

 

 

 

Cheers and thanks for doing this!

It is my pleasure :) I can't play online so I have to make my own entertainment :(

*edit

font size fail.

[Vvalerie2 48]

I had lots of fun with your ArmaA2 addons and this shows equally great promise!

Great to see you back dmarkwick and hope life has been kind to you.

[janeko009 0]

Do you have any plans on publishing this mod in the near future? Sorry for being impatient, but it looks fantastic and I just can't wait to install it :D

[Capt Childs 178]

Now this does look very interesting indeed.  I agree the volume of blood could be toned down a bit, but the dynamic nature of the flow/spread is awesome.

 

Be keen to understand how this works in a MP dedi server environment, and whether or not everyone sees the same thing.