better blood

[llamalad]

How would you suggest getting more realistic blood in the game? I mean, you can pump the blood modifier, but I'm not quite sure what exactly that does aside from make the particle clouds thicker. I mean making better stains on the people, and if possible getting the blood on the ground. Can this be done?

[Orj]

Well, I believe the blood effect uses vertex shading, so I'm not aware of a way to improve it. If you could figure out a way to place a decal on a model, it might look better, but I don't know if that's possible.

[llamalad]

But still, there must be somehow to enable it showing on the ground, walls, tree, etc... as well, right?

[bobsters34]

If it was a scene prop, I think it's possible. But I don't think that if you were to swing at someone by a wall and have their blood splatter on it, as far as I know that's not possible.
What I'm trying to say if that didn't make sense is that you can't have blood splatter onto walls/ground in real time and have it stay.
(Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not 100% sure)

Edit: More blood on people is possible though, I think that I've seen it in a mod. I'm not sure how to do it though.

[llamalad]

Couldn't you use the same code that we use for getting the blood on our arms/weapons and so on?

[Highlander]

Oh come on. You have no idea about modding, but "there has to be a way to...". No, there doesn't have to be a way.
You can do pretty much nothing about blood. You can change the magnitude, and how the particle looks, but nothing else.

[llamalad]

Okay, sorry if I awakened the beatchyness in you, eh? By the way, I am a n00b, but how will I not be a n00b if I don't ask these questions and learn?

[Pali Gap]

What exactly is a 'n00b'?

[llamalad]

Someone who is a 'newbie', shortened noob, is someone who doesn't know much about or is new to something.

[Lancien]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=noob

A whole treatise on the subject.