Making a character to never drown as an abbility?

[ashthedragon]

That is. I want to make a fish characther wad and I wanted to know if there is some way to make a characther to not to drown in water, like fishes does. Maybe by soc's? any help will be higly apreciated.

 

[Spazzo]

Definetly done by SOC's. Quite easy if you use the SOCEditor, too.

 

[ashthedragon]

thanks spazzo. Could you give more precise instructions? I'ts my first wad, so I have no idea of how to soc...

 

[Blitzzo]

You'll want to change UNDERWATERTICS in your SOC. This number is represented by tics, where 35 tics equal one second.

 

[Flame]

so you can set it to 999999999999999999999999999999999999999 (ect...) and your character will never drown

 

[Eryn]

Actually, Flame, it can, if you wait that long. Not that you will, though... I believe 0 nullifies it.

 

[Super mystic sonic]

I tought 0 made water a instant death......

Anyway, make a lump in a wad called MAINCFG. In that lump you've gotta type:
UNDERWATERTICS = 9999999999

You can stay under for like forever. Unless you like to be underwater for 16 hours or something.........

 

[Shuffle]

More like 285714285 seconds.
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Okay, nobody's going to be underwater for THAT long, but it's a better idea to just make it 0.

 

[ashthedragon]

thanks you very much to all of you! I'll show you the wad when it is finished.

 

[Chaos Zero 64]

Yeah.. this applies to all characters, doesn't it?

 

[Zeshiro]

In that case a few wads should be updated if they havn't been already. The metal characters shouldn't drown.

 

[Princess Plushima]

Put this in a SOC

MAINCFG CATEGORY
UNDERWATERTICS = -1

That will make drowning a physical impossibility. Hurray for -1 nullification!

 

[Super mystic sonic]

I tought it didn't apply to all characters if you putted this in the OBJCTFG lump. (The lump where you make a character able to use in 1P.)

 

[Pokechar2]

More like 285714285 seconds.

285714285/60/60/24/7=472.41118551587301587301587301587 weeks

That's over 9 years!
No-one will stay underwater in the game that long.
You would have to leave the game on unpaused for years before they drowned.

so you can set it to 999999999999999999999999999999999999999 (ect...) and your character will never drown

999999999999999999999999999999999999999/35/60/60/24/28/13/1000=908483051340194197.33705447991161 milleniums (I think) (according to my calculator)
Is this older than Earth?

 

[TheDarkArchon]

Wouldn't the maximum be 2147483647?

 

[Callum]

...
That is just ....wow.....

 

[TheDarkArchon]

Not really: I'm assuming it's a 32-bit integer and know that it's signed since it parses -1 so the maximum value is (2^31)-1=2147483647

 

[Espyo]

Those are all big numbers, but, maybe, if you turn on Devmode, and enter the water, it wont look pretty.

 

[Flame]

Put this in a SOC

MAINCFG CATEGORY
UNDERWATERTICS = -1

That will make drowning a physical impossibility. Hurray for -1 nullification!

does the -1 nullification work with other Game tic's? like... staying invincible forever? or having the speed shoes forever?

 

[Hyper_Sonic00]

Wait, is there a way to make characters already in the game never drown? I would like to do this with Hyper Sonic because he was immune to drowning in Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Well at least I dont remember getting the 5 second warning after being underwater for about 5 minutes.