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FPSC Classic Product Chat / Water area selection using 'WaterMask'

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rolfy
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Posted: 26th Jul 2011 01:17 Edited at: 26th Jul 2011 01:27
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Having seen a lot of threads saying its not possible to have a select area for water in FPSC x9, that you can only cover the entire grid area, I decided to take a quick look at it.
I know that lowering the water level below the floor can give the appearance of water being only in a pool or whatever and trigger zones can be used to turn water on/off when not in the area.
But what if your water is contained in a 'tank' where you want to have walls or whatever without water outside this.
After messing with the WaterMask.bmp image file found in effectbank/common you can indeed limit where water appears, though I have to admit it caused me real headaches working out where this water would appear, it seems that is has no real relation to the grid size or position and is strangely mirrored, but I got it working just the same.
Before anyone thinks this solves all, it doesn't, if you fall into the corridor trench area you will find yourself under water, so you would still have to use trigger zones to turn it off should you enter areas below the water line. But for appearance sake it looks pretty good.



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Posted: 26th Jul 2011 01:27
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Nice work, Rolfy. Thank you for the insight to this. Gives some of us some things to ponder/look at.

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Very nice work rolfy another great idea from the master.

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It's always great to see the more experienced forumites at work, it really is inspiring for those of us that are just starting out with custom media creation.

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Quote: "It's always great to see the more experienced forumites at work, it really is inspiring for those of us that are just starting out with custom media creation."


I agree. Usually when these type of things come up, we wait for Rolfy to share his knowledge so we can glean valuable insight to add to our collective.

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rolfy
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Posted: 26th Jul 2011 02:24
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Heres the map file attached (its all stock media) and the WaterMask, put it in your effectbank/common folder (remember to back up the original).
I would be interested to see how it works for others.

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Many thanks rolfy

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Posted: 26th Jul 2011 03:48
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Make sure you use the default shader and scripts from the V1.18 download, if you downloaded any scripts/shaders from the forums they dont have the shader code required to use WaterMask.
Even so it might still be funky which is why I want others to try it out.

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Posted: 26th Jul 2011 12:24
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Hey rolfy, this is exactly what I was looking for! But.. One problem. When I downloaded your script, this is just a sample of what I downloaded..



For some reason, I don't think that's right. So.. What am I doing wrong?




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Posted: 26th Jul 2011 20:42
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Thanks for the download.Excellent as ever.
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@IntRepid Bullet You need to unpack it with winrar or any other program that supports rar files.

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Posted: 27th Jul 2011 06:22
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That is very interesting indeed. What a nightmare to place that in an existing level.

But if you made your water mask first then built your level around it it would be very interesting.

A little note. I was using Dark Goblins new water shader and your mask made no difference, still full level water on the top side.

Changed back to Vanilla and worked as advertised. Great find.

I have been mapping the wasser one to entities and making holes in segments to give me puddles and stuff.


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S4real. Shouldn't notepad support rar. files? Because that's what I'm opening it with.. If it doesn't, can you suggest a programme that I could download that WILL support it?

Thankyou.

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as always inspired and in awe of your outside the box thinking and creativity. top work rolfy



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OMG!!! rolfy ur water script is freaking Awesome!! as always, thanks for the download!! Keep up the Awesome work.

I hope you have a great day!!

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Quote: "S4real. Shouldn't notepad support rar. files? Because that's what I'm opening it with.. If it doesn't, can you suggest a programme that I could download that WILL support it? "


No, notepad is really only for text (.txt) files, what you need is WinRar.

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Thanks Nickydude. Glad to see the TGC community is so helpful and nice.

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Er, I'm not quite familiar how to use WinRar... How am I supposed to read the file? And then save it into the scriptbank?... Sorry, I'm a bit of a noob.

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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 15:56 Edited at: 28th Jul 2011 15:57
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winrar is just the packer. download winrar, install, then open the rolfy-load and follow the instructions in his post where the download is available.

Quote: "Heres the map file attached (its all stock media) and the WaterMask, put it in your effectbank/common folder (remember to back up the original).
I would be interested to see how it works for others.
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the fpm is a mapfile, so put it into your mapbank-folder
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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 19:15 Edited at: 28th Jul 2011 19:26
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After installing Winrar simply double click the file waterzone.rar.You can drag the files straight from winrar to the folders.

The watermask.bmp goes your effectbank/common folder.
The waterzone.fpm goes in your mapbank folder.

You can then open the level in FPSC, the download contains no scripts or shaders as it uses the stock ones that come with FPSC.

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Aww. It didn't work for me! The water just appeared on the whole level where the trigger zone was place.

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You MUST use the default Evolved shader from FPSC, if you downloaded ANY of the shaders or sripts from elesewhere on the forums they are missing the needed code required to use this.
I have attached the shader it needs, use the map I provided. Put it in effectbank/common.

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Dark Goblin
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Hey Rolfy.
Nice idea but I also knew about that one and that you would still have the plane on the whole layer even if you are able to assign the water mask (which is not that easy!).

But still nice that someone else found that out ;D (maybe some should start checking Evolveds page, there you can clearly see the use of a water mask).

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Posted: 23rd Aug 2011 16:08 Edited at: 10th Dec 2011 01:59
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Hi Rolfy. i thought i would tryout your method,
I put the file in the correct place but still have water every where, this is my screen shoty,

is there anything else i need to do.

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You need to use the stock shader which came with any of the official updtates.

Quote: "You MUST use the default Evolved shader from FPSC, if you downloaded ANY of the shaders or sripts from elesewhere on the forums they are missing the needed code required to use this."


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this doesnt work for me i need hgelp!!!!

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Posted: 10th Dec 2011 00:05 Edited at: 10th Dec 2011 00:12
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Hey Rolf i thought i would share my media with you and others

I have sovled my water by using my models and water shader & with my water script, i can have water in any shape and form
Also i have managed to have rasing and lowering water. Tidle water with or without waves.

here is my post for further info
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=189084&b=24

in the youtube vids im using full screen, but that is me just showing it can be extendend beyond the normal size of a full size map
Also there is a kit for dowload, so dig inn, i mean swim inn
please note i have not included my tidle scripts in the download as they are for personl project.

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