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)and I've looked through entities meta editor and can't find an option that does so.
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Well it's kinda not possible because the layer of the level itself has a low ceiling. also, it's just cratesneodos wrote:Place the blocs higher if possible, and you may need to up the health of the bloc because if the bloc is destructible it will explode if it fall from too high.
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well that's if you spawn throught the Itmc though, I'm spawning in the bloc palette through the scenarioCaptainPoopface wrote:I've dragged blocs to midair in Entity's BSP viewer, and they stay there until they are landed on, pushed, meleed or hit with an explosion. An interesting Super Mario-type effect, but I've never used it deliberately. The blocs were native to the map, so I don't know if you'll have problems with spawning imported objects. The itmc tag does have a weight attached to it that you might try setting to 0, as well as the "floating" boolean, if you use the itmc.
There shouldn't be any need to edit the coordinates manually. Use the BSP viewer to do it graphically.
the "weight" your refering to is to do with how often it is spawned ie on coagulation the powerups are both in 1 itmc in separate chunks the weight decides which 1 should appear more oftenCaptainPoopface wrote:The itmc tag does have a weight attached to it that you might try setting to 0, as well as the "floating" boolean, if you use the itmc.
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The blocs can't really go any higher without leaving teh level boundaries. you see, the level has a roof and the entire level is placed at the Z coordinate of around -24, plus I can't move th elevel without having to move a whole bunch of other crap.CaptainPoopface wrote:What you're trying to do is very easy, using the obstacle palette. Just give the blocs a Z coordinate that is sufficiently high, and they will behave exactly as desired. They will fall if they are shot or touched or affected by a nearby blast. They will also fall if they come into contact with other objects, including when they spawn. So make sure they are surrounded by empty space and not embedded in a wall or ceiling or other object. Also make sure they are fully within the map's collision boundaries. I've seen some very bizarre behavior when part of an object exceeds the map's collision mesh.
If you are trying to stack crates, it seems like it would be very difficult to be that precise, without figuring the dimensions of the crates and entering the coordinates manually. I have seen it done well (South Side and Research Facility, both from the Killtrocity map pack), but it seems monumentally painstaking, at least with my paleolithic computer. The good news is that you can do it in clusters - figure out how you want to stack 4 or 6 crates, then if you want another set of those crates a certain distance away, add that distance to the appropriate coordinates.
Does anyone know of a program that can adjust the coordinates for a large batch of spawn points, in formulaic fashion? As in, select all coordinates where X > a and Y < b, and add 2 to all the Z coords in that group. The available tools can only set a batch of spawn points to be the same. A utility like that would make your task much easier, and mine.
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I have made floating minefields this way, so that people could run freely beneath them but still be killed if someone shot the mines. So I know it works, although I wasn't putting them in a cramped space.This does not make sense to me. Try a simple experiment. Load up Ascension. Pick a good sized bloc from the obstacle palette, like a crate (imported). Set its coordinates so that it spawns directly above the antennae in the middle, and put some space between them. Start a game. What you would expect to see is a crate sitting on the ground, or sitting on the antennae. What I think you will actually see is a crate floating in the air.they fall right through since they spawn before the machs do...
