Water Video

Going off the video, it would probably be filled with water.

 

Just image the jokes you can do with that.You friend opens a door and BAM,water stream takes him away.

...But READ the words in the video,it says WATER PRESSURE.Water will compress.

 

That is an inference...the compressed water may be a developer element. or there may be an emitter in those sections...thus my curiosity.

Yeah it does not look like air is accounted for in the math. So it is a good bet that liquids will fill any space till they reach a solid block. If air was accounted for then they would fill until the air pressure in the space is greater then the water pressure pushing in.

 

I love how the little control panel in the water pressure segment is like appearing and dissapearing over and over again. It's like the little animated scenery you also see in games like Maplestory. I like it!

 

The outro music sounds like something from Disney.

 

I wish pressurized water had a different look, maybe the opacity would change depending on the density. It doesn't look like water pressure, it just looks like it's generating water.

 

MPHMPHMM
Water slides!!!!

 

Great video!
Hope see more tech demo soon =)

 

This is Great I love water pressure and everything you can do with it!!

 

OK I'm collapsing from the stress here. Do we have any more solid an idea of the release?

Between this and Torchlight 2, both with no solid date for release, I'm kinda losing my mind. >.<

 

AWSOME! lots of potential for building things and such.

 

Love it, especially the colour and gradient to the water. Another example of the neat little engine that they're putting together. I like the sound of it being even smoother and less blocky in the final game too! More great music as well.

 

Tiy still says "hoping for by the end of the year." But hey, that's getting closer everyday! The February announcement seems like it wasn't that long ago...

 

Less latency in MP is the best part of this

I can't wait for that problem to be solved.

 

Can't wait! Starbound is such a cocktease!

 

I came back to post something like this. They said the visuals of water aren't finalized yet, so I'm hoping that as water is compressed or pressurized or whatever it will become more opaque or a darker shade of blue.

There needs to be some visual indication when a body of water is a higher density than is natural.

This, of course, is assuming that pressurized water is something that will actually be encountered in Starbound and not just a show of evil dev magics!

 

There will probably not be natural "room filling" levels of water pressure in your world. But the water pressure demonstrated by the "U-bend" will be something that we will have to deal with practically.

 

I don't see any performance affecting latency issues. If there are any it could be because the host is not on a strong connection.

 

I agree for sure. The whole point of that segment of video was to demonstrate that water will behave that way. I only question whether or not there will be cases of "compressed" water, just waiting to expand the moment more space is made available.

I also agree that it's unlikely that we'll see anything on the magnitude of what's in the video (i.e. a small box of water exploding to a tenfold volume when released), but who knows what science can accomplish in the crazy world of Starbound. =]

 

The problem I was referring to is very prevalent on Terraria. Any major water activity on pretty much any server wrecks everything, and if you're fighting strong mobs during that time, you're probably dead. Tiy pointed out in this that latency doesn't happen [as easily] in Starbound, at least not with water flow, so I'm happy.