If you run at high speed vs. walls or jump fast at the sky, you get damaged.. is there a way to prevent this?

Thanks in advance,
-Raze

Yes. A very easy way. Flag the surface as 'no damage from fall'. Walls, cieling, sky, doesnt matter, still works.

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if you want to do it without changing the level, it's going to be hard. Try to change some actor/thing flags, i think there are some for invulnerability, but i'm not sure if they will work, and rechange them after a timer has timed out. You could change the flags and start the timer in the weapons cog that does the kickback.
If this does not work, there is another way i can think of. Try to create a thing with a bounding box a little bigger than the one of a player. Then have in the weapon cog this thing created and attached to the player. Maybe it will work as a shield, who knows (of course, you would not want to create a 3do for it, and you would want to destroy it shortly after it's creation). Tell me if you managed to do one of those things...

Just had a bright moment..

For each [surface] do
SetSurfaceFlags[no fall damage].


BUT.. erm, are surfaces 'things'? Do they have a thingtype? Then it would be easy, done that kind of things before =) .
if they don't.. how could I get the ID of each single surface in the level?

I think I got it, found the cog verb GetSurfaceCount() =)

a simple

surfacecount = GetSurfaceCount();
while (surfacecount != 0) {
SetSurfaceFlags(surfacecount, 0x80);
surfacecount = surfacecount -1;
}

seems to do the trick...

Or would that by any chance not work? Oh, and is the first surface 0 or 1 ?

-Raze

the first surface is 0. I'm not sure if you can just reference a surface by an int...could work, but tell us if it doesn't.

[This message has been edited by zagibu (edited February 23, 2002).]

Well, I have only experienced one surface that gives damage and that's probably the 0... apart from that, 3dos still give damage.. any work-around suggestions?

err...what are you trying to do again? I mean, exactly.

ah, i see now. The 0 surface gives damage because you are not changing it in your while loop (try while(surfacecount > 0)).
No idea for the 3dos, cause both of my ways described above dont work...

Well it works if I include the 0, so the only prob are the 3dos but oh well, how many objects in a level are 3dos, gotta live with that =) .

Just watch where you are going!

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couldn't you just do something like this...

damaged:
if(GetParam(1) == 64)
{
ReturnEx(0);
}
else
{
ReturnEx(GetParam(0));
}
Return;

Yep, just run an array setting all of the surfaces to nodamage. (I didnt know this was for a mod... )

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