Well I have some various questions involving mapping that aren't answered on the wiki and may end up being too specific and too many to be their own topics.
|*| My map takes a 15 seconds or more to build nodes and I'm wondering if this is a bad thing and if so how to avoid it.
|*| This same map crashes when someone tries to join a private netgame with it.
|*| What is the most efficient way to make damaging water blocks return the flag to the base. {Workaround found, added 3d areas with damage and gave the water blocks return flag sector type}
|*| What is the exact vertical boost granted by the blue spring in frac-units.
|*| What is the (equation for) the exact value added to the previous vertical boost when resurfacing from water.
|*| What is margin of error when each individual thrust factor is factored with said vertical boost, with and/or without water.
The questions about the springs are just things that I've been curious about since playing Moon Temple and Starlight Palace.
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I am working on a capture the flag map that involves harmful liquid. The problem is that to get the flag back, you can't use temporary invincibility and as such it gets stuck in the harmful liquid. The harmful liquid does factor enough into the level for it to be a major concern and not a *if the player's stupid enough to drop it, he can wait 15 seconds* thing. So I went through and copied all of the water sectors and made the copies 3d areas with Return Flag sector types. The problem is that the flag is still getting stuck in the liquid and I can't stack sector types any other way without adding enough fof's to make the level a lagfest for some/most computers.
EDIT: D'oh, I just figured out a workaround. I reversed the sector types and gave the corresponding water blocks and 3d areas the return flag and damage sector types respectively.
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|*| My map takes a 15 seconds or more to build nodes and I'm wondering if this is a bad thing and if so how to avoid it.
|*| This same map crashes when someone tries to join a private netgame with it.
|*| What is the most efficient way to make damaging water blocks return the flag to the base. {Workaround found, added 3d areas with damage and gave the water blocks return flag sector type}
|*| What is the exact vertical boost granted by the blue spring in frac-units.
|*| What is the (equation for) the exact value added to the previous vertical boost when resurfacing from water.
|*| What is margin of error when each individual thrust factor is factored with said vertical boost, with and/or without water.
The questions about the springs are just things that I've been curious about since playing Moon Temple and Starlight Palace.
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I am working on a capture the flag map that involves harmful liquid. The problem is that to get the flag back, you can't use temporary invincibility and as such it gets stuck in the harmful liquid. The harmful liquid does factor enough into the level for it to be a major concern and not a *if the player's stupid enough to drop it, he can wait 15 seconds* thing. So I went through and copied all of the water sectors and made the copies 3d areas with Return Flag sector types. The problem is that the flag is still getting stuck in the liquid and I can't stack sector types any other way without adding enough fof's to make the level a lagfest for some/most computers.
EDIT: D'oh, I just figured out a workaround. I reversed the sector types and gave the corresponding water blocks and 3d areas the return flag and damage sector types respectively.
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