Lifeless Island 2, Dambuster Studio’s upcoming first-person, has put out a number of extra particulars in regards to the tech that goes into its zombie pulverising. In a chat with Recreation Informer (opens in new tab), DI2’s senior render programmer and technical artwork director shone some extra gentle on the procedural FLESH system (Totally Locational Evisceration System for Humanoids) that the sport makes use of to show its undead shamblers into “meat piñatas”. Truthful warning, I am about to jot down the phrases ‘Flesh system’ like 100 occasions. It is too late for me, however you’ll be able to nonetheless escape earlier than the phrase begins to hang-out your sleep.
Dambuster has spoken in regards to the Flesh system earlier than (opens in new tab), however now they’ve gone into nauseating element about exactly what the system does and the way it manages to do it. The system will procedurally mannequin weapon-appropriate wounds on the our bodies of your zombified foes: Knives will slash and hammers will bludgeon, they usually’ll cross by means of layers of pores and skin, fats, muscle, bone and organs to do it. Maintain hacking on the similar spot on an enemy and you may ultimately put on by means of, making a type of procedural dismemberment system.
