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djdawson · 2005-01-28 9:50 pm

So I was playing Invasion last night on the Omega server with Brain, Chronotrigger, and BJ and at the end of the map (KillBillyBarn, or something like that), my character gets fragged and ends up on her back (yes, I play a female character - Sapphire, I think) on the ground in a pose similar to one would make were one to make a "snow angel". Well, I was idly panning around and happened to approach my dead character from her feet, and since the view was at ground level the view zoomed in rather than have the view point go sub-terrestrial. Here comes the delicate part -- it appears that those rascals at Epic Games might have put more physical detail in some aspects of their player models than one would suspect. I grabbed a couple screenshots but hesitate to post them anywhere because I think they could actually be offensive. Has anyone else noticed anything like this? I understand that the interaction of things like color gradients and 3D surface rendering could result in images that might be reminiscent of "other things", but I find it hard to interpret what I saw as anything other than a prank by some programmer.

Brain, BJ, and Chrono - did you happen to notice this by any chance? Like I said, I have unretouched screenshots, but don't think I should post them.

This is really odd, in a shocking sort of way... eek

benightedbastard · 2005-01-28 10:11 pm

You can see her hoochie?

benightedbastard · 2005-01-28 10:14 pm

djdawson wrote:
Well, I was idly panning around and happened to approach my dead character from her feet,

So let me get this straight... you were 'idly' panning around and 'happened' to approach your dead character from her feet? wink

doc-robc · 2005-01-28 11:14 pm

I think we'll all need to see the pictures before we can judge.

Phydeaux · 2005-01-28 11:26 pm

See? You people should be playing Halo. Fully clothed Spartans.

DoctorB · 2005-01-29 12:43 am

benightedbastard wrote:
djdawson wrote:
Well, I was idly panning around and happened to approach my dead character from her feet,
So let me get this straight... you were 'idly' panning around and 'happened' to approach your dead character from her feet?

You know there is a word for that. wink

DoctorB · 2005-01-29 12:44 am

Phydeaux wrote:
See? You people should be playing Halo. Fully clothed Spartans.

Oh yah? We now have female Spartans in UT.

DoctorB · 2005-01-29 12:46 am

doc-robc wrote:
I think we'll all need to see the pictures before we can judge.

OMG!! UT pr0n! It's everywhere! Yes. To be completely clinical about this we must see the evidence. drool Remember one man's pr0n is another man's pr0n.

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BJShan425 · 2005-01-29 12:48 am

Hmm... no, I can honestly say I wasn't checking out your players model during the match lol

That seems odd, but it would probably be something that would be hard to notice during a normal game.

brainiac_7 · 2005-01-29 8:13 am

hmm, sounds like time to switch to a less attractive model, Dana. No I didn't happen to notice anything untoward that night.

Marathionman · 2005-01-29 10:34 am

So now are you going to switch characters?

It may be a good idea. If you dont you are going to have the hole team trying to frag you just so they can see.

djdawson · 2005-01-29 7:04 pm

OK - I'm going to post the pic on my .Mac web page for a little while so you can see for yourself. All I did was export it from Preview as a medium JPEG file since the .bmp screenshot was 1.8 MBytes. Strictly by coincidence, the text on the screen seems to only add to the controversial nature of the situation - go figure. I'm not going to put an actual link to it, but the file name is "ut-bmp3.jpg" and it's on my .Mac homepage (my .Mac username is the same as my MA forum username). Put these two components together as the URL and there you go.

Post your impressions here - I want to know if I'm being too sensitive about this...

benightedbastard · 2005-01-29 7:19 pm

Oh dear Lord.

Marathionman · 2005-01-29 8:45 pm

O my... And I just though that it was just going to be some little line in a bad place. That is just wrong. blush This shoudl also change the rateing of the game a little.

I am going to have to go play on server that only let robots play or something... Well they should be safe. I hope.

I would like th hear that Atari woudl say about that.

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DoctorB · 2005-01-29 10:54 pm

Well you must have taken it down. All I get is the "Sorry" screen.

Freezer mac · 2005-01-29 11:12 pm

DoctorB wrote:
Well you must have taken it down. All I get is the "Sorry" screen.

its still there... eek
what model is that?
i'm surprised it hasn't been found by anyone else yet.

djdawson · 2005-01-29 11:27 pm

Yeah - it's still there. I just checked and the character model is "Sapphire" (though it's hard to tell from that angle).

So, I guess I'm not being hyper-sensitive then.

Doc - my .Mac homepage is http://homepage.mac.com/djdawson. Add the above filename (and a slash, of course) to the end of that and you should get it.

DoctorB · 2005-01-30 11:55 am

OK. Yup, fairly close approximation anatomically. That is the skin of the model not the model itself. Given the location and detail one must think intentional rather than accidental. I guess the artist felt free to put in what he/she felt was necessary for the character. Whatever. Is it worthy of shock? Not especially. This is supposed to be a human female. I guess we can put it in the "Easter Egg" file for UT2K4.

(How's that for clinical analysis? big_smile )

Phydeaux · 2005-01-30 12:08 pm

Don't give me the realism spot unless there's the equivalent male flapping in the wind.

Now we're back to the reason why... normal... girls don't play videogames. Habitually, like us.

LLEVIATHANN · 2005-01-30 5:34 pm

lol

Nice!

Hard to say if it was intentional... There is the "Gold Member" in Junkyard.

brainiac_7 · 2005-01-30 7:35 pm

Marathionman wrote:
... you are going to have the hole team trying to frag you just so they can see.

You did mean to write "whole" team, no? <cough> big_smile

Marathionman · 2005-01-30 8:21 pm

brainiac_7 wrote:
Marathionman wrote:
... you are going to have the hole team trying to frag you just so they can see.
You did mean to write "whole" team, no? <cough>

uh.... bleve it on not I really did not mean... uh well.. ok look I can spell and welll... never mind. blush

djdawson · 2005-01-30 10:26 pm

OK - I've removed the image from my .Mac site. I guess I've learned that I wasn't hallucinating, but I don't know that it's worth doing anything else about this.

Thanks, I think...

IcarusFountain · 2005-01-31 9:50 pm

Darn, it seems I was a day late and a buck short, and missed the fun. Don't suppose you'd mind emailing it to me, would you?

IcarusFountain · 2005-01-31 9:52 pm

LLEVIATHANN wrote:

Nice!

Hard to say if it was intentional... There is the "Gold Member" in Junkyard.

Oh, and Levi, did you ever find that other Egg we had been looking for after finding the "Goldmember"?

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