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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Get Ground Height for BSP

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Rob K
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Posted: 27th Sep 2002 00:52
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Can we have a Get Ground Height for BSP command please.

This would be very useful for camera & object placement.
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Posted: 27th Sep 2002 03:06
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yes, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!! I can't figure out how to otherwise implement stairs properly!!!

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 27th Sep 2002 03:38
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Surely for stairs you can just use the bsp collision commands to let your player walk up them. Providing the player is positioned in a sensible place to start with it will work fine (i.e. place them on the map not stuck in a wall or something). Then use the camera to object tracking commands to let it slide smoothly around walls, etc.

Doesn't help with object placement too much (you still need to know the right height, etc) but definitely helps with stairs.

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Posted: 27th Sep 2002 14:54
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Well, I have tried that. The main problem is that you can only detect collision with a spherical coll area...

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Hmmm.. I will check when I get home but I find it very hard to believe that would stop you doing what you want to achieve.

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Rob K
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Posted: 27th Sep 2002 18:53
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Still, I think GET GROUND HEIGHT for BSP Maps would make life very easy, wouldn't you agree?

Here is one further idea,

AUTO GRAVITY (Collision Index)

... with the default being 10.

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