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[_Haldir_]

So, i don't want to give too much away, but i've finished a map that uses terrain and texturing to give the illusion of an interior. However, the appearance of the interior is somewhat ruined by flying units and weather. But because the map has both an inside and an outside, i don't want to restrict weather effects and flying units entirely.

Essentially, i wanted to know whether it's possible to:
1. make certain areas impassable to flying (and ground) units
2. prevent weather effects (freezing rain) from falling inside certain areas, but without preventing the weather completely

This is for BFME 1 by the way, and the map will be released with one of the TDH patches

[Radspakr Wolfbane]

You use a weather script that is triggered only when the outside is needed.
Check out the day/night tutorial thing and tweak the script for it.

For the flying units i'm pretty sure you can limit the passability of trigger areas with a script.

I'll have a look and edit this post with the results.


In the Script Conditions you'll find

Team->Area or Path->Team has units inside an area
In that you can set air or ground or both.
From there in the actions you can move them away or stop them or delete them.

Edited by Radspakr, 07 March 2010 - 07:51 AM.

[Crusard]

The rain/snow particles are spawned at certain height. If you make the indoor areas higher than normal terrain the rain just will not spawn there

[_Haldir_]

Hmmm.. I've had a look but i can't really create what i'm after.

The problem with scripting a unit to stop/move away when it hits a certain area, is that the unit won't path around the obstacle. Gameplay wise, you'd have to tell your raven/eagle/nazgul to move to a bunch of different locations to get them where you want them.

The day/night isn't ideal either, essentially i want to prevent rain/snow particles in a trigger area only. And i've already finished the map, so changing the terrain isn't what i'm after. A massive height difference between inside and out is also just impractical

Thanks guys, but i think i'll have to live with it

[Rob38]

Yeah, for the weather, I have the same issue. It's going to be raining in the interior section of HD. Crusard's suggestion is pretty much the only thing you can do to adjust where it rains/snows. The map only has an on and off feature for weather unforunately.

[_Haldir_]

Yeah i just had a look at BFME2's Erebor as well, which has the same problems as my map. EA hasn't managed/bothered to fix them, so i'll just leave it. It's not a massive deal, just something that i would've fixed if i could

[Rob38]

Actually, for EA's Erebor map, their solution was to make the rain fall from a very low height. If you notice, the rain lines are hard to see in that map. You still get the rain sounds though.