Ant see-through blood

[Redmoth27]

I was thinking that when a soldier or any ant, bug spider, etc dies there should be a puddle of see through blood that you can see. It's realistic and It could add more emersion to the game.

PS There could be an option to turn it off.

 

[Planemaster]

I'm not sure whether ants actually bleed (ant experts prove me wrong otherwise). At the moment, I can't imagine a great benefit coming from this apart from the fact the FPS is lowered.

 

[Redmoth27]

After the ant corps despawns it will despawn roughly 2 minutes later.

 

[MikeSlugDisco]

Would look nice, but as Planemaster says this would probably just be a pretty resource drain which in an intense battle might just end up making things more difficult to discern. I think we're also quite keen to keep the game as PG as we can, really - I know it'd just be haemolymph but it'd still make things significantly more violent looking.

 

[Redmoth27]

That's understandable. I thought that it should be set off, and when you turn it on there could be a warning that it could be resource demanding at some points. :'(

I think the game should be more PG-13 than PG

 

[Planemaster]

That's understandable. I thought that it should be set off, and when you turn it on there could be a warning that it could be resource demanding at some points. :'(

I think the game should be more PG-13 than PG

I feel like increasing the age rating is unnecessary. I'm more interested about the strategy of ants as a colony and how they work rather than a violent battle with gore and stuff.

 

[Redmoth27]

Ok plane master, I was wrong.

Modders should be in charge of that.

 

[Serafine]

Ants can "bleed", however they don't have blood or veins like we do. Simply spoken their bodies are filled with a liquid in which all the organs swim. Since ants have exoskeletons (and no bones) this works fine. The "blood" color of insects can be quite different I think ant body liquids are usually transparent but become yellow when they are exposed to air (so ants would "bleed" yellow).