How would you put futuristic or fantasy materials in your game and what aspects of gameplay would it affect
>>98530626first of all: it depends on the settingreal life carbon fiber requires a lot of pre-existing engineering and chemistry knowledge to produce so a fantasy setting would have to be relatively advanced in those departments to be able to have the tech and know-how to make itif its only produced in small amounts using arcane magic rituals to convert graphite into an impossibly strong and lightweight material, then it wouldnt necessarily change the universe as a whole but instead exist as a strange an expensive unobtanium similiar to how mithril or adamantine is treatedthough its probably beat out by mithril in terms of material properties, carbon fiber could not make a decent sword while carbon fiber armor, while both strong and light, could still be destroyed by mundane means
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>>98530626I have it as a common health hazard in my scifi-urban fantasy setting where, much like in real life, Carbon fiber is an indispensable wonder-material and worse than Asbestos in its tendency to cause mesothelioma and other cancers in humans
>>98530626I'm sure other things have done it, but this stands out in my mind. There was this Sega CD RPG called Vay, it was by all accounts not a very good game, but the game revolved around this legendary suit of armor which was just a sci fi mech suit from a space war that crash landed on medieval fantasy planet thousands of years go.
>>98530626Oog found shiny rock!Must be gift from OOG in the sky!BAM BAM BAM!Good shiny rock, good bam bam.Uh, shiny rock change shape?Who cares.BAM BAM BAM!Oog likes shiny rock.Yeah, it depends on the setting. In fantasy (and science fiction) there is already a wide range of fictional materials (or new uses for known materials) like mithril, adamant, orichalcum, dragon hide and scales, duranium, gold-pressed latinum, etc. or spider silk, a diamond/glass/golden sword, transparent aluminum etc.
>>98531113needs kick ass fighting game with action missiles
>>98531113carbon fiber would actually be inferior to your standard array of fantasy metals for one reason: it is a fiberit would not make very good swords or spears compared to your standard super-steel type alloysand while steel also wears down, repairs usually just involve re-forging it or sharpening it, whereas carbon fiber undergoing delamination might require far more expertise to fix than what even a large medieval town might have
Isn't that what the mesh layer of the Crimson Fists' power armor is made of?
>>98531408Lmao
>>98530626I mean that's just mithril isn't it? Ultra light, ultra-strong?
>>98530626Metamorphosis Alpha
>>98531113>>98531398Mithril-fiber thoughever is the primo airship hull material
>>98530626Purely mechanically, name the material and stat it different from the base materials typically used. +1 this, half/quarter weight, critical failure on 19 or 20.
>>98530626Carbon fiber is a shit material for most purposes and anyone promoting it is retarded. It is strong for pulling forces aligned with its structure, when used in any other way it's fucking dog shit. It either holds up fine or shatters with zero in-between making it a material that just straight fails instead of weakening, flexing, even giving you a slight warning that it's near it's limit. I hate how people use it as some kind of standard for toughness. Fucking Avatar saying that Navi bones were essentially carbon fiber had me eye-rolling hard. I'm sure Cameron meant that to interrupted as they have light but very strong bones but instead it means Navi bones should be snapping like twigs constantly because Carbon Fiber is brittle as fuck when any impact is applied in a non-parallel direction. Lifting your forearm to direct a blow away from your face? Congratulations, your forearm just shattered. A skull with no strong parallel points given it's round structure? You bump into a low hanging branch and you got bits of bone in your brain.
>>98542115https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_fibers#Applicationsbecause its actually used for a lot of real world applications where a high tensile strength and low weight is needed
>>98542118They are useful when high tensile strength and light weight with ZERO impact or deviation from stress direction is applicable.It has its uses, but its uses are pretty fucking limited in scope is my point and people treat it like it's a wonder component for all kinds of stuff it is not designed for and would be dog shit when used for. A notable example is the Titan sub implosion. That thing had a lot of problem, chief among them being they used carbon fiber as the primary insulator against crushing pressure. When titanium or even steel starts to fail, you get signs, sounds, warnings, and warnings as clue you need to bug out because shits going to crush real soon. Carbon Fiber? It's either working fine or just shatters with zero in between state.
>>98542132>ut its uses are pretty fucking limited in scopeits clearly really widespread and used in almost everything, so its not as limited as you claim it is
>>98542150>It's used in almost everythingThe fuck it is. Shit is hard to produce and prohibitively expensive. It's come down in price, it used to be over 30 times more expensive than high grade steel now it's around 10 times more expensive. Even then it's primarily application is aeronautics and space related stuff where, again, single direction tension strength and light weight are very important.
>>98542160the fact its found so many applications despite the cost speaks more about how useful its properties are, if anything> again, single direction tension strength and light weight are very important.so it is not a limited material and actually very useful
