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City of Heroes / Re: anyone remember what the maximum number of players in a zone was?

« Last post by MyriVerse on Today at 12:27:47 PM »

100 people per instance, at least for Atlas Park. I'm not sure if it varied for other zones.

This article about the closing mentions it.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/09/23/the-fight-to-save-city-of-heroes/

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General Discussion / Re: Does anyone know what happened to the City of Titans forum?

« Last post by MyriVerse on Today at 12:25:05 PM »

I see the forums just fine, and I'm not a member. They're not private.

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General / Re: Technical side discussion

« Last post by spectre1989 on Today at 08:41:14 AM »

Yes. The primary use case for doing this is 'trays' - indoor sections that are only rendered while you're inside them. Conversely, while you're inside one, the outside world is not rendered.

The top-level group will use an Obj that acts as the container geometry. For things like offices and sewers, this is often a single mesh of the ceiling, floor, walls, etc. Other styles like Arachnos bases use a solid black box with holes cut out for door connections.

The same group with the Obj also has child groups with smaller interior details that turn it from a generic room with blank walls into a finished room. Things like light fixtures, pictures on the wall, desks, machinery, etc. The child groups are only rendered while you're inside the "Obj" (or a connected tray but that gets more complicated).

Interesting, thanks!

Another thing - there are some (< 100) external geobin defs which aren't in defnames.

Here's the full list of those:

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Other Games / Re: Fallout question

« Last post by Angel Phoenix77 on Today at 05:07:21 AM »

3 didn't unless someone made a mod for it. Can't speak to NV or 4 but I think they're all M rated. Post-nuclear society tends to use its swear jars for homemade booze.

I can speak about FO4. No Fire you cannot turn off the profanity in it. Just like Vee and three, unless there is a mod for it. Sorry.

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Other Games / Re: Fallout question

« Last post by Super Firebug on Today at 03:05:53 AM »

A pity. I know that it's odd, these days, but that's me; I don't like profanity. It's the same with the Die Hard series and other, similar movies - I've long wanted to have professionally-made DVDs of action movies without the profanity.

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Other Games / Re: Fallout question

« Last post by Vee on Today at 02:19:05 AM »

3 didn't unless someone made a mod for it. Can't speak to NV or 4 but I think they're all M rated. Post-nuclear society tends to use its swear jars for homemade booze.

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Other Games / Fallout question

« Last post by Super Firebug on Today at 01:30:39 AM »

I've been watching a "Let's Play Fallout 4" series on YT. Does anyone know if Fallout 3 or 4 offers a way to shut off the profanity in the game - to play a sort-of "sanitized for television" version?

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General Discussion / Re: Does anyone know what happened to the City of Titans forum?

« Last post by Fireheart on Yesterday at 10:36:32 PM »

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City of Heroes / anyone remember what the maximum number of players in a zone was?

« Last post by Golden Ace on Yesterday at 10:33:05 PM »

I remember the Unity Rally back in... September of 2012 where the Virtue server had 33 instances open for Atlas Park and I was wondering if anyone could remember how many players it took to fill up a zone to produce a second instance of that zone.

Thank you in advance.

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General / Re: Technical side discussion

« Last post by Codewalker on Yesterday at 09:43:29 PM »

Now the thing I'm wondering is - can a def have the "obj" field set (therefore having a model), as well as having child groups which also have models etc? Should be easy enough to find out.

Yes. The primary use case for doing this is 'trays' - indoor sections that are only rendered while you're inside them. Conversely, while you're inside one, the outside world is not rendered.

The top-level group will use an Obj that acts as the container geometry. For things like offices and sewers, this is often a single mesh of the ceiling, floor, walls, etc. Other styles like Arachnos bases use a solid black box with holes cut out for door connections.

The same group with the Obj also has child groups with smaller interior details that turn it from a generic room with blank walls into a finished room. Things like light fixtures, pictures on the wall, desks, machinery, etc. The child groups are only rendered while you're inside the "Obj" (or a connected tray but that gets more complicated).