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Water block dissappearing at certain angles

by ChrisG · in Torque Game Engine · 02/09/2007 (4:42 am) · 3 replies

I'm using 1.5 and my water block dissappears at certain angles.
I found a post from a couple of year ago that said it was due to the centre point moving out of view.

The block itself is a fair size (2048 x 512 x 24)

Does any one have any ideas on how to fix it?
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Torque Owner Mark Barner
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#1
02/09/2007 (3:31 pm)
Are you using a mission from TGE 1.4? If so... go to the waterblock> Position and change it to "-1024 -1024 -1". That should get the waterblock close to centered. My main waterblock scale was set to "2048 2048 200". This is what I found that was best after porting over 17 missions from TGE 1.4 to 1.5. Half of those missions was from content packs sold on GG. Hope that helps.

Torque Owner ChrisG
#2
02/09/2007 (8:08 pm)
Thanks this fixed the problem.

The problem was that the waterblock was mostly outside the boundries of the terrain.

When the waterblock is placed correctlty and you go beyond the bounds of you terrain it dissappears. Because mine was outside the bounds to begin with... it mostly dissappeared.

Torque 3D Owner Todd Pickens
#3
02/09/2007 (10:16 pm)
Yup, there was a change in TGE 1.5 that caused this to start happening with ports of my content packs. Thankfully its a very easy fix and one that will be made when I post the free updates that are in the works.