Water Death

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Hey I'm pretty new to map making (and forums for that matter - so if these questions have been posted elsewhere just refer me there please) but I have sketched out an idea for a map but it would need a river going from one corner to the other. It would basically be like the river in Channel Crossing or Japanese Castles only not side to side. I have a few questions about this -

1. I'm also new to Blender so I'm not sure how to make a river in it - would there be any way to make it in Wings? I'm much more acclimated to that and it is, well, simpler than Blender.

2. How do you make tanks die on impact to the water?

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Never mind - I experimented around in Wings and managed to make a river with little difficulty and have looked around the forums and found a way to make tanks die when they touch an object.

[mrapple]

BZFlag also has a map object called waterLevel used like this:

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waterLevel
height 1
end

This will create deadly water throughout the entire map at 1 Z.

You can then make all your map objects above that so tanks don't die, but the river moat at 0 Z so the water appears.

[Strakowski]

Also, another thing a lot of mapmakers tend to do is make the Water non-lethal and drivethrough, but then give the the floor beneath the water a death tag . This avoids the odd feeling of bouncing off the surface of the water when you die, by letting you "sink" underwater, and then explode. The only drawback is that a player can still go partially underwater without dying, but the difference is minuscule.

[McSpider]

Also, another thing a lot of mapmakers tend to do is make the Water non-lethal and drivethrough, but then give the the floor beneath the water a death tag . This avoids the odd feeling of bouncing off the surface of the water when you die, by letting you "sink" underwater, and then explode. The only drawback is that a player can still go partially underwater without dying, but the difference is minuscule.

You can also apply a physics driver of -Z to your water mesh/box, that way the tank will explode then sink without bouncing off.

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Thanks for all the ideas! I have yet to decide which method I will use. I keep hitting bumps but I'm getting there!