Units and space physics

If anyone recalls the game play trailer on the space platform terrain, you would also recall that when a Battlecruiser is destroyed, it's debris falls into space. Shouldn't it be the opposite? Shouldn't it float around and then disappear (to remove unneeded pieces) instead? Also you will see that the Warp Ray's wreckage falls directly onto the space platform's ramp. Is this due to the space platform generating it's own gravitational field? ???

If this is Blizzard's improved physics system, I think they need to work a little bit more on the Star part of StarCraft. I think that floating wreckage of air units would be a sight to behold (for the time being, as they will be removed.) On another note, I would really like to see physics taken into account for separate terrain sets.

 

Well, considering the fact that the space platforms are supposed to be staging grounds for military movement, I would guess that they'd have their own gravitational pull.

 

It is very odd considering that the game is "Star"Craft that everything is based near the ground.
However, seeing as there are ground units, every terrain set must generate its own gravity. I'm not thinking that Zealots or Zerglings could go "running" across the surface of a platform with no gravity.

It would be cool, perhaps as a bonus mission type or UMS type thing, to have an actual Space battle, perhaps only allowing air units to be used.
The complications this would bring would be very large, so it is highly unlikely, but cool nonetheless.

 

well since starcraft 2 is a universal battleground, shouldnt there be debris everywhere? maybe to remove these unnecessary parts, the debris can slowly fly out of the gaming field

 

space platforms are usually in orbits around planets, in the video that specific one was orbiting a planet therefore all objects will fall towards the planet.

 

The planet seemed to be at a far off distance, also if all objects fall towards the planet, then there would not be a space platform. Especially if objects are of a smaller mass than the platform, it makes no sense.

 

i assume the platform has some form of engine for movement.
if the platform was in a stable orbit around the planet then it should of been bits going everywhere
however if the platform was in a fixed position near the planet than all debri would fall towards the planet.
also, most platforms are built by terrans, so we can assume that they are magnetised, therfore causing all the bits of spaceship to fall towards the ground.

In reality, blizzard doesnt want to implement a whole different physics system for different sets of backgrounds.

 

1) It's a game
2) It's a rather large platform (you can build an entire city of buildings on it)
3) Space platforms are build in orbit around planets or on/around asteroids. Each are big enough to have their own gravity.

 

Yeah, realism is good but too much can kill a game

 

Heh heh, if it makes it's on gravity, wouldn't that mean you could also walk underneath it? That would make for some interesting strategies.

 

Or maybe there are artificial gravity plates that only work on one side of the platform because it would cost too much money to put them on both sides.

 

It must make its own gravitational field, or the field of the planet its over has effect on it while the plataform is designed not to be dragged down.

If the plataforms ddnt have a grav field that means that everysingle ground unit would have to be EXTREMELY heavy (and if it is how would it function on planets that od have a field) OR generate its own field which is not economically wise and quite disturbing for the soldiers.

 

Na, cause the way it works, the generator would still affect the otherside, unless they have gravity nulled metal. And that would be somewhat pointless.

 

Yeah I had this talk with a friend when it first came out. I'd say that (aside from it being just a game) that it's artificial gravity, you don't see ground the units floating around.

And since we're talking theoretical physics here, I think it's possible to generate a field only on one side. Just play Prey on the 360 or PC and you'll see what I mean.

 

Yeah if it's possible in a video game like Prey, it's definitely possible.

 

Were you being sarcastic or genuine?

Anyway it's a sci-fi game so it doesn't really matter if it follows the laws of physics or not.

 

i was in fact being sarcastic

 

You cannot really distinguish anything over the internet. Besides the point, debris should not be falling into space at all, if the space platform is in fact orbiting the planet, then anything should just float there. Take our satellites for example, they are just floating around and not doing what? Falling, that's what. Who here works at NASA?

True but I like to put up topics that stir debate, instead of seeing some really "odd" ones that everyone just agrees (one liners and others) or adds on to.

 

actually all satellites are falling

 

Yea, very slowly but they are.