News: SWG Dev Diary - Hiding Backpacks and Headwear
The latest SWG Dev diary features Matt "AdeptStrain" Boudreaux explaining how the team made it possible to hide backpacks and headwear in update 3, which hits the live servers today:
Game Update 3 allows players to decide whether or not they wish their backpacks and/or headwear to be visible to other players. This gives the player a bit more customization with their avatar, and hopefully encourages players to visit their local image designer for a new hair style.
While there are certainly many elements that go into a feature like this (networking, database programming, etc), one of the more important systems that had to change was the way we render your character.
Your character is actually made up of a series of meshes. We use mesh generators to actually draw all your various equipment. So, when you equip any piece of armor or clothing, we just simply add the mesh generator for that item to your character's list of items to draw when it's his turn to draw.
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News: SWG Dev Diary - Hiding Backpacks and Headwear
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