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I should like to create areas where some life is lost only if you walk through.
It is possible?


Oaf

i think so, but it might take some flags, like a cloudkill type thing. idk though talk to pyro or ared

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oaf wrote:I should like to create areas where some life is lost only if you walk through.
It is possible?

Do you mean you're making an epic Neverending Story TC? And this is going to be for the Swamps of Sadness?

Artax!!!

dunno if answer was there but I remember such topic:
http://tain.totalcodex.net/forum/viewto ... ght=damage

by far the easiest way is to use media, and edit the ripple effect to do damage (and mb be invisible).

Scripting would be pretty easy too.

by far the easiest way is to use media, and edit the ripple effect to do damage (and mb be invisible).

Scripting would be pretty easy too.

In 1.7 there is a GEOM flag that lets you test for units on a terrain type, allowing you to selectively damage those units. If you're willing to wait for it, that's the easiest way to get what you want (and I'm sure if you ask nicely you can become a tester for the latest build). Otherwise, find out how to do what Fury said--I'd never heard of it before, but it sounds very effective.

If you want to script it in 1.6, you have to set up polygon tests around the areas you want to do damage (using Geometry Filters). Pretty easy if you have one area of damage , but not if you have 20 oblong swamp patches.

When you walk in water, it automatically creates a ripple or splash projectile that follows at the units feet. Just find this projectile and edit it to do damage.

Sisters of the Blade has "quicksand" that you die if you walk in (not sure how they did it), and theres a ww2 plug called Acid Bath that for sure uses the ripple effect to damage units who walk in the acid.

i remember hte quicksand but the acid bath ive never heard of... sounds really kool though

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effectively in that method fury if your standing still. you could live as long as you dont move the water(if thats possible) not sure if it cinludes current. Depends on how much the dmg u have the ripple effect do.

Harrass undead that are immune to the swamp dmg would be interesting if they keep moving in and out of it.

actually, the blood from the unit being hit my ripple effect could trigger another ripple You need to set the damaging projectile to centered on target, slashing metal and choose nearby target!

But note that if you make it slashing damage, you can't make undead immune to it. Or you could, but you'd have to alter a lot of other things to do it.

oops yes. bad idea!