Eyes adaption in the dark

I wonder if they is a way to implement this.

It is known, that in the dark the eyes adapt to the darkness. In the game, beeing some time in a pitchblack, or very dark location the gamma value could get higher a bit.
It would light up the dark areas/shadows that you can't light up in current INF by the menu gamma setup.

Looking at massive lightsources (like a window of a house at night) will lower gamma a bit again, but only as long you have the lightsource insight. Looking away will instantly higher the gamma value again. Same with muzzleflashes.

When you instantly get into a light area the screen will get darker and stay for a second untill it brightens up another half of a second (the view gets darker, because you close the eyes a bit and the eyes need a bit time to adapt to the light untill you can open them fully again).

@Nukeproof:
For current INF definitely not. I used the current INF as example, where the full shadows are massively black and you can't cheat by cranking up the gamma value in the options, the eyes adaption to darkness would give you a good advanatge.

Also this adaption works in really dark areas with only distant and small/weak lightsources, just like in real life.
They is a map in INF (damn forgot how called) with whater and the burning pipe in the main room (where people spawn inside the fire, muahah). It is very dark, but still it has to many lightsources.
But they is a custom map I played in the past (don't know how called), it is nearly pitch black jungle with bunkers, you see nothing and that is the situation where this adaption should work.
Once your eyes are used to the darkness, you would be able to see outlines better, which includes moving soldiers.


@SanitysEdge:
Of course YOUR eyes are affected, but onyl a bit, to little to campare to real life. As explained with the nearly pitch black map above. YOUR eyes still wouldn't see much, but a on-screen adaption would let you see more contrast and so the outlines in such a map better.
Notice how the night sky gets grey in contrast to the black trees and buildings when you are long enough in the dark. When you just moved outside you see the sky nearly same black as the trees.

An other example is, playing AA:O on my favorite map, Radio Tower, I'm impresed by the sun effect, but this sun doesn't blind you.
To simulate this better (real-life like), the sun should light your view instantly up (nearly completely white screen, but you still can see) and in less than a second the screen should get darker, with a black fade-in toward the top (the black area at the top simulates the eyelids, and the darker screen simulates the eyelashes that protect the eye).
A white screen doesn't blind YOUR eyes, so it is better to simulate it in the game.

When the sun effect is simulated in the game, sunglasses will be a good thing .

keihaswarrior said:

But maybe that is getting a little too detailed.

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Why not, I´m all for it .

What about if they is a dusty map and its wind (or just dust in the air) and when you have no tac-googles (I think you mean those big ones that look like skiing googles) your view can be disturbed, like the screen goes darker often like sand is in the eyes and you try to save your eyes?


I also would like those googles having overlays on the screen, but not like you wear a gas mask blocking much, but just in the screencorners and at the top screen line some greish blurry overlay.
something that is present, but not disturb your view, game feel and weapon view.

Man i like this stuff it adds atmosphere.

keihaswarrior said:

On the other hand, we don't have any peripheral vision to block so the tac-goggle 'effect' should be very slight and unobtrusive.

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Thats exactly my thought, it should just give you the feel like you wear the googles.

It would be nice when the overlay would be affected by light (like the rearsight bitmap of the BF2 gun sights). It annoys me having overlays that are bright in a dark area.

Hmm, that could be made for sniper scopes too, looking into the light/sun would make the tunnel-view overlay grey.

Running up a hill in a slower speed allready in the first release would be good.

Trip and fall over is way more complex and harder on animations, so it's up for the future.

Priority list? Realistic movement, weapon handling (with all the positions) and realistic sight aiming is one of the things on top of my list.
Especially because HL2:INF is a scaled down project, it have to enjoy us with what it is about, moving & using the weapon, that's something that should be unscaled.