Question regarding water

[Dev offline]

I know very little about mapping, I only opened it once but I provide support for map scripting. My question is related to the visocity of water and whiether it is possible to "cut a hole" in an existing block by adding a second block of water inside it with the exact opposite visocity. So if the water has a visocity of 6, could all small block of water be added that has -6 and then two blocks would interact in such a way to negate any effect at all. Is this possible?

[Star offline]

I know even less about mapping. But what did you have in mind that would require this ?

[Dev offline]

Inside of a base. They claim they can't have a base underwater not have water in it, so was thinking of potential ways.

[Star offline]

Underwater bases are interesting. I know of 2 maps that have closed off buildings underwater. If you go into observer and go inside, you find that some parts are underwater and some aren't, mostly depending on if you are looking out of a window. Sometimes, if you look out of a window, it thinks you are underwater and if you don't it thinks you aren't. I'd imagine this would be hard to control But I dunno anything.

[Akira offline]

Sounds like we need to find out how the engine determines when to display water properly [I was under the impression that water always worked properly inside a building...it just wasn't always displayed properly]. My advice would be to create a custom shape and create leaks in all the areas by making at least one enclosing brush a detail brush. And maybe goofing around with the portal and vehicle zones. Just some thoughts.

Oops...I just reread this thread...you want to create an underwater building with no water in it. Sorry, I haven't had a need to add water to a map yet, but maybe I'll goof around with it and let you know what I find, or maybe you'll get lucky and someone who knows the answer and doesn't babble so frikkin much will help you first

[Sfphinx]

Viscosity has nothing to do with the appearance of water, unless I am stupid or something.

Viscosity is taken from the root of Viscous which means:
Having relatively high resistance to flow
(taken from Dictionary.com)

So unless I am just really tired I don't think that making a water block with a viscosity of 6 and then putting a block of water inside of with the viscosity of -6 probably wouldn't work.

Anyways thats my 65 cents in the matter.

[powdahound offline]

if you wanted to do that you'd actually need a minumum of 5 different blocks...
|-----------------| <- first block
|------|----|-----| <- second, third, and fourth
|-----------------| <- fifth

you can't cut a hole, sorry
i dont know about the viscosity part, but i do know that underwater bases dont really work

[Dev offline]

[powdahound offline]

[Sfphinx]

I was not trying to be smart or anything if that is how I came across...It has not been tried to my knowledge...

Remember that this is 3D and you will have to use more then 4 blocks of water to do what you are wanting to do


you will need a total of 6 blocks

2....one on top and one on the bottom of the base
2....one on the left side of the base, one of the right side of the base
2....one on the back side of the base, on on the front side of the base