If I have a floor set with the conveyer cog to scroll...then another cog makes that floor a passable adjoin which is set to Geo "0"...will the computer still be working on the calculating of that invisible surface to scroll...or is it left alone. I just need to know wheter or not I need to somehow to stop the conveyer cog or not.

[This message has been edited by eggtooth (edited June 10, 2001).]

Yeah it will... as far as I know, JK doesn't check to see if the surface is rendered, unless there is a check for that implemented in the cog.

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Why would you set a surface to scroll with the conveyer cog if you cant see it because the geo is 0?


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Its suppose to be scrolling until an event occurs, at which time a cog will make that surface adjoined and not visible. So, I dont want the cog to continue scrolling it when its geo 0. I figure I'll need to modify the conveyer cog itself. Or is there a cog verb of somekind that will shut down another cog maybe?

Yes you could modify the so that when the event happens the speed is set to 0, but I dont know how you could tell it to be adjoined, and the geo set to 0.

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It shouldn't matter one way or the other...

I've done a lot of conveyor work on my SP level Yenn Korron Series: Chapter 1, and conveyors won't slow down framerate any, if that's what you're worried about.

Well i think it would have to be adjoined to begin with but it would be impassable...and then ithe cog would SetAdjoinFlags (surface, 7) and SetFaceGeoMode (surface, 0).

I was concerned about framerate. My scrolling textures are 256 by 256 and the conveyer is set around 10 or 12 (speed) I think. I dont want them to lag anything down.

nah, conveyors won't lag. However, if your architecture is complex, you will experience some slowdown.