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| Anyone seen this? Weirdness on Sandtrap *longish* | |
| Posted By: Burr | Date: 2/24/08 1:22 p.m. |
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Don't worry its not about those easter eggs! Ok so sometimes I like to bomb around the edges of Sandtrap in a hog (driving thru minefields is fun!) Occasionally when I'd pass a certain point, coming up the sniper dune, I'd see a flash of light. I'd assumed it was something rendering incorrectly, like an infinite polygon, or polygon going thru the ground, due to design laziness around the outskirts of the level. Or possibly my 360 starting to overheat... But it was ALWAYS in the same spot, so I decided to check it out with the replay. What I saw is a little weird, it looked like a beam of light was targeting my warthog, Sauron style! I followed it and it led to one of the towers in the background of the level, from the lights at the top. The beam is very, very faint, so its almost IMPOSSIBLE to see. It also only appears for (the longest I've seen) 2 frames. That's 2 out of 30 frames of one second on the timer!
Btw when your camera is bound to your vehicle, when the beam passes through it, it will show itself very strongly as it crosses between your camera and the vehicle. If you detach the camera the beam will be very faint, even it's still between the camera and your vehicle. So if you use a large vehicle like a tank you'll be more likely to see it. I've seen the beam on each end of the large sniper dune, but I suspect areas opposite each tower will be targeted. So what the hell is this beam? Why would Bungie make it, when its almost invisible, and in a multiplayer map, where processing speed is critical? (ok rendering the beam would be barely a blip in the xbox's processing cycle or whatever, but every little bit counts.) Whatever the case, the dunes have eyes. The Guardians are watching.
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