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Terrain Editor Glitch... Minor But Funny

by John "Mythic" Henry · in Torque Game Engine · 10/02/2002 (10:48 pm) · 8 replies

Go into Basic Map, Say Scorched. Switch to Editing using F11, Goto Terrain Edit mode set it to "Smooth" Tool. You could use any Tool, but this is simplest... Now standing in Place, Raise the Terrain around you so it is "ABOVE" you. Swoosh, you fall into oblivion "BENEATH" the Surface.
Simple bug, but a pain, Only way out was to Exit and reload Mission. Best Recommedation is to have Player Location Update Z Level with the Terrain Modification by checking if Player Location is within the Area Tool will change.
I have no fix yet as I just got the Engine and have been getting familiar with it. Overall: Excellent ENgine and I am very appy with it.

ONE other suggestion: Add a "SEARCH" engine to the FORUM. Being a good guy, I Checked for any equivilent Bug reports on this before I posted it. I don't like to duplicate work. Although I suspect it may be in another Forum about Map editing.

John
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Torque Owner Prairie Games
Prairie Games, Inc.
#1
10/02/2002 (10:52 pm)
Simple fix:

Don't edit terrain with player sitting on it

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More Complicated but Simple fix:

Alt-C

Move to spot above map

Alt-W drops player at location (in editing mode)

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More More Complicated but Simple fix:

Fixing the engine to account for this.. which may not be entirely "easy" as it seems

-J

Torque 3D Owner John "Mythic" Henry
EveronWorlds
#2
10/02/2002 (11:02 pm)
I knew there had to be some more Functions to get me out of it. The documentation is failry good, but a little disjointed in ways too.
Thanks for the reply. I agree that with the complexity of the Engine, a fix for this is not a high priority, not even really a necessity. Just a bit funny tho.

Torque Owner Prairie Games
Prairie Games, Inc.
#3
10/02/2002 (11:04 pm)
F1 - Help

There is a menu on the top of the screen with these commands and their keystrokes..

No problems... everyone has a couple bumps starting out...

-J

Torque Owner Mike Stoddart
#4
10/03/2002 (7:48 am)
I think it's a feature not a bug. When you raise the terrain around you, suddenly physics make you fall as there's nothing to stand on.

Torque Owner Robert Brower
#5
10/03/2002 (7:54 am)
Press CTRL K to get rid of the player and associated physics on the camera, then edit terrain.

Torque Owner Dee
#6
10/03/2002 (4:58 pm)
re: add Search for Forums

Change the drop option 'Resources' at the top right of the header to 'Forum' then search.

It sometimes doesn't find matches though...

Torque Owner Nathan Martin
TRON 2001 Network
#7
10/03/2002 (7:04 pm)
Ok the same thing happends when you move a interior above the player and that's normal, so I would expect the same result with the terrain.

Torque 3D Owner John "Mythic" Henry
EveronWorlds
#8
10/04/2002 (1:04 pm)
Thanks for the replies guys. I am moving around easily now in the Tools. Still getting the hang of it. Cant wait to change my laptop so I can do developement on the road too.

I did manage to get the engine to run on a 16MB Video card as well, (testing the minimum reqs. on the engine), but have to be careful not too pull back too far on the Camera. If you get too high above the terrain it locks up the Whole System on the less powerful video cards... (No suprise either).

I think we can close this thread now. Move on to more important Bugs.

Thanks again.

John