DM_Sewers

[holy_cheese]

i got a question. since you must have your cubemap set up properly before the water rises........ it isn't so that when the water rises that the cubemap is within 16 units of the water?

[Cr4ig]

when the water rises the cubemap will end up under water - try parenting it

[Jest@]

aaaah good call.....but i'm not sure it'll work. Cubemaps aren't dynamically calculated. They're only calculated when you run buildcubemaps. So it doesnt matter where the cubemap is while you're playing, only when the command is run. But the position of the cubemap is very likely to be the problem.

Currently the cubemap's right above the water, right? try sticking it near the ceiling, see what you get.

[Blink]

Try assigning it to the surface of the water only as well.

[upriser]

Yeah, i'll try that. But the question is why, then, does it look fine from above? Ugh, such interesting issues. We shall see, we shall see. As it is, I'm putting that off and putting up the basic geometry for the rooms that weave around that central area.

[holy_cheese]

you really want to weed out bugs as they pop up otherwise you may end up with a map with bugs that cannot be fixed.

the thing with the cubemaps, couldn't you start the water at a high level where you can swim, build the cubemaps when the water is high- that way the water would be fine, and then when the water is lowered you can't swim and it should still be fine, just maybe not underwater but that wouldn't matter.

[upriser]

Okay, I now have the entire basic layout of the map done, but I was thinking about what you said. The problem with starting the water high is that at its high point it is intersecting a lot of brushes. This is bad, and I realize this, so I'm sort of sad, trying to think of what to do. I tried just placing the cubemap entity above where it will rise to, but that didn't change anything. So, hmm, I'm not really sure what to do at this point.

Another strange thing is that there are actually 3 water entities in the scene. When the first rises, it surpasses the other two and I make them recede downward so that there is not water visible underneath water. The problem comes when the water is lowered again. The smaller water bodies rise and then suddenly disappear downward again. The triggers are exactly the same as the water lowering, but the water refuses to stay up after the trigger is first hit. I'm going to cut out all but this stuff, and if that doesn't solve anything with the reduction of brushes, I'll be willing to give it to people to mess around with.

[upriser]

An update for y'all of some new pics. I have tried all the things that I can think of for the rising water, but it almost seems to be getting worse. Right now I'm going to just work on it with one water leve. It works well that way. I also fixed some of the major brushwork problems. So, here ya go. Tell me what you think. I'm still adding more props, but it's starting to get closer. And yes, I'm very slow at this.

[YokaI]

Looks pretty l33t, but uhh... some of the lights taht do look bright dont look bright, if you get what im saying. They need to be a bit brighter, or look like their casting light at all... you know?

[upriser]

Alright, some tweakage of yesterday's progress.