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Melv May - waterblock and TM issue

by Brett Fattori · in Torque Game Engine · 09/01/2003 (8:31 pm) · 5 replies

Hey Melv! Hope your project is going well...

On to my question/problem: Have you ever seen this problem with the waterblock before? I'm using your fluid enhancements (this doesn't happen with normal water - unchecked depth fx)

www.renderengine.com/stuff/waterprob.jpg
Any ideas what's causing this? It's within one of the terrains that it outside the normal mission bounds, and it's within a tight canyon. I can drop off the mission and terrains if you're curious.

- Brett
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Torque Owner Karsten "Clocks" Viese
#1
09/01/2003 (10:56 pm)
I got a similar problem when using water on a mission where the terrain tiles are set to 4 instead of the default 8.

What setting are you using for the terain?

Torque Owner Brett Fattori
#2
09/02/2003 (9:06 am)
Well, as I said, it's the Terrain Manager.. But it's set to 8 right now.

- Brett

Employee Melv May
#3
09/02/2003 (12:45 pm)
Brett,

I've not seen this before.

I'd be glad to look at it quickly if you could send me the appropriate files. I'm afraid I'd only be able to check it with the latest [HEAD] build if that's okay.

- Melv.

Torque Owner J. Donavan Stanley
#4
09/22/2003 (2:45 am)
There are serious issues between TerrainManager and Melvs water blocks.

In a nutshell, the waterblocks need to be TM aware, or the depth masks are really screwed up. In the GORPE tree I have updated versions of the waterblocks that deal with this problem. Shoot me an email at jdonavan@jdonavan.net and I'll send them to you.

Employee Melv May
#5
09/23/2003 (8:42 am)
Yes,

The waterBlocks we're done against the stock Torque without modifications. There's always the possibility that modifications break other code such as the waterBlocks. The way that objects refer to each other is not standardised so this leads to hard-coded dependancies. I'd follow J's lead on this.

- Melv.