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water block problem

by Stefan Beffy Moises · in Torque Game Engine · 08/04/2002 (11:02 pm) · 12 replies

hey there,
I'm having a little problem with waterblocks...
to get them into a level, normaly I copy/paste some waterblock from one mis file to another and then adjust the block in the mission editor...
seems to work this way, but there is one strange problem:
www.beffy.de/upload/pics/water_problem.jpg - I resize the water in the editor (it was a square before I turned it into that "river" in the screen), but the original water "shape" seems to be stored somehow, too (the white grid with the previous waterblock's x-y-z axis in the middle), so this "water grid" doesn't change to the new settings...
and, even more strange, the waterblock seems to influence the whole map now, so as the player moves, it looks and feels as the whole map was covered with water (decreased speed, etc.).
I'm using Melv's water enhancements atm, but that doesn't make a difference, it's the same with the standard water blocks...
Here is the example "river" block:
new WaterBlock(water) {
      position = "-520 -736 -7.78101";
      rotation = "1 0 0 0";
      scale = "1216 64 25.748";
      liquidType = "RiverWater";
      density = "2";
      viscosity = "3";
      waveMagnitude = "0";
      surfaceTexture = "~/data/water/water";
      surfaceOpacity = "0.8";
      envMapTexture = "~/data/skies/day_0007";
      envMapIntensity = "0.2";
      submergeTexture[0] = "~/data/water/water";
      removeWetEdges = "0";
      UseDepthMask = "1";
      MinDepth = "0.1";
      MaxDepth = "1";
      MinAlpha = "0.23";
      MaxAlpha = "0.76";
      DepthGradient = "0.4";
      BlurPower = "5";
   };
Does anybody have the slightest idea what may be causing this??
Hm, if I try to add a new waterblock within the mission editor, I get
Connection error: Invalid packet..
Any ideas here? :P
Thanks a lot!!
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Torque 3D Owner Marco Meier
Slickware Games
#1
08/04/2002 (11:41 pm)
Have you tried to save your changes and startup the engine and this level again. Some times it doesn't
work on the fly.
Do you have some strange warnings when you compile the engine? maybe you should try to make a
clean build of the engine.

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Marco

Associate Stefan Beffy Moises
#2
08/05/2002 (12:23 am)
nah, no matter how often I save the mission, it's always like that...
and I've recomiled the engine dozens of times, with quite a lot clean builds, doesn't change anything, too...
very strange...
So does it work for you if you copy the waterblock from another mission and adjust it in a new level? Does creating a new block in the mission editor work, also?

Torque 3D Owner Marco Meier
Slickware Games
#3
08/05/2002 (1:14 am)
Yes, it works both ways. I can just copy one waterblock from another mission and then adjust it trough
the mission-editor. Or I can just creat a new one directly in the mission-editor. No problem there. That's
the reason, why i thought, there's a problem with your engine.
Do you use the latest HEAD? Or Torque 1.1.2?

Associate Stefan Beffy Moises
#4
08/05/2002 (1:17 am)
hm, very strange then... well, we are running a customized HEAD version, but the latest merge dates back to June, I think... so maybe I should do another merge or a least a diff to see where the differences are regarding the editor or the waterblock specific code...
thanks for your help!

Torque 3D Owner Marco Meier
Slickware Games
#5
08/05/2002 (1:20 am)
I just looked on older version (HEAD one day in june). I had no problem there. So, i don't know if the new
head will solve your problem. Hope so.
Good Luck!!!

Associate Stefan Beffy Moises
#6
08/05/2002 (1:35 am)
Just found a change (strangely enough from end of April...) which seems to explain the crash when inserting water in the mission editor:
Change #: 2809 
Committed by: John Quigley 
Date: 2002/04/08 03:17:58 

Description:

Added fields surfaceTexture and envMapTexture so that editor doesn't crash
when adding water.

Modified Files:

torque/example/common/editor/objectBuilderGui.gui (1.6)
I'll check this when I'm back home... but this doesn't explain that I can't EDIT the waterblock correctly in the editor... thanks again!

Torque 3D Owner Eric Forhan
#7
08/05/2002 (3:32 am)
I think you may have tried to scale the depth? It seems that I have this problem too if I do that.

Associate Stefan Beffy Moises
#8
08/05/2002 (3:52 am)
Yeah, I've scaled all three dimensions... am I not supposed to do this? I'll give it a try later on...
but why the heck has the grid the same "old" sizes no matter how I scale the block... weird!

Torque 3D Owner Eric Forhan
#9
08/05/2002 (4:07 am)
The grid will stay the same--that's more for a guidline (same for models).

Under the scale setting, type in the length of the river, the width, and then 1 for the depth.

So, it might be "1024 140 1" (for example). Then you should see the waterblock, surrounded by a yellow line which indicates the true edges.

That should do the trick. :-)

Associate Stefan Beffy Moises
#10
08/05/2002 (4:12 am)
Thanks, Eric!
So did you also have the strange phenomena of "water effects" on the whole map (decreased speed, etc.), even at places with no water if you changed the depth value?

Torque 3D Owner Eric Forhan
#11
08/05/2002 (4:33 am)
Yeah... putting the depth to 1 should fix that, though. The water will still be as deep as needed, but that's just automatically done.

Associate Stefan Beffy Moises
#12
08/05/2002 (11:41 am)
Eric, thanks again, that really fixed it... should be documented somewhere, though....!! :)