Negative water height

[Crispy_]

Without the need to use console commands or mission editor.
But why do this in the first place? For effects like this:

Would be a nice addition.

Also a less needed but welcome ability would be to have multiple water layers, to make it look like there are clouds above those buildings but still below you.

[Ad Bot]

[Sideswipe]

oh crap yes please

[Horrigan]

With a few configurations it is possible.

[Crispy_]

The slider in the env gui for water height has a range, 0 to 500 I think. Would it be possible for a script to change the range to -500 to 500?

[SWAT One]

Moving = airship fight.

[Dannu]

The slider in the env gui for water height has a range, 0 to 500 I think. Would it be possible for a script to change the range to -500 to 500?

Certainly, if you trace what the function and args are for changing water height. I'll look into it once i get home

[-Setro-]

oh hey

Entering serverCmdEnvGui_SetVar(19787, WaterHeight, 14.871795)

waterheight is probably a global variable, and the last numbers in the function are probably the height
19787 looks like an object id
no loving clue how to change water height with that lol

[Headcrab Zombie]

19787 looks like an object id

it's a serverCmd, the first argument is always the client
waterheight is the name of the value it's changing, the third is the height

[Thorfin25]

it's a serverCmd, the first argument is always the client

Well it's not like he's wrong, that'd be the client's object ID in this case.

[-Setro-]

$waterheight = 1; is not working
am i doing something terribly wrong

[Thorfin25]

Are you sure it's actually a global variable and not just a normal variable for the command to determine what it's changing? Another fact of the matter is there may be an if(%number<0)%number=0; in the command. Wouldn't it be easier to raise the ground and change the build load offset?

[Headcrab Zombie]

Are you sure it's actually a global variable and not just a normal variable for the command to determine what it's changing?

It's the latter
The only global variable for water height is $Water::Height and changing it doesn't do anything

The correct answer is waterPlane.setTransform("0 0 " @ %height); followed by waterPlane.sendUpdate();
That only changes the visible water though, there's another object for the physical zone

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$EnvGuiServer::WaterHeight = mClampF(%value, 0, 100);

    if (isObject(WaterPlane))
    {
      %pos = getWords(GroundPlane.getTransform(), 0, 2);
      %pos = vectorAdd(%pos, "0 0" SPC $EnvGuiServer::WaterHeight);

      WaterPlane.setTransform(%pos SPC "0 0 1 0");
      WaterPlane.sendUpdate();

      updateWaterFog();

      if (isObject(WaterZone))
      {
        %pos = vectorSub(%pos, "0 0 99.5");
        %pos = vectorSub(%pos, "500000 -500000 0");
        WaterZone.setTransform(%pos SPC "0 0 1 0");
      }
    }
from the "WaterHeight" case from some of port's code

Now, in theory, you can just take that code, remove the mClampF call, and throw it in a packaged servercmdenvgui_setvar, inside an if that checks if the second argument is WaterHeight. That, paired with a client mod that's little more than EnvGui_WaterHeight.range = "-100 100"; should give you what you want

[EcstaticEggplant]

Wait what effect is it for? The blue tint on the edge of the fog?

[Crispy_]

To make it look like you are miles above the town or whatever. Like that old skyhigh map.

[EcstaticEggplant]

To make it look like you are miles above the town or whatever. Like that old skyhigh map.

Oh. Well to me it looks like you're standing right on it :/