Author Topic: Water layers and YOU!  (Read 2207 times)

Want to make taller water bricks without those gaudy water layers? Of course you do!

Here's your simple 4 step process to making taller water:

1- Build your Water bricks and stack whatever amount of water bricks you want on top of them. Right now those gaudy layers are plain and visible. Let's make them Invisible.

2- Take out your wrench and hit one of the water bricks. Don't hit the top brick though! We'll keep that one visible.

3- You will notice at the bottom of the Wrench menu 3 boxes: Ray Casting (unchecked), Collision (unchecked), and Rendering (checked).

4- Uncheck Rendering and click on Send

Oh-ho! What's this? One of the water layers suddenly vanished! Don't fret, it's still there, you just can't see it anymore. Repeat this for your other underlying layers and very soon you'll have a taller water brick made up of a stack of water bricks.

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« Last Edit: August 11, 2008, 02:39:25 AM by Muffinmix »


Oh, holy stuff! I never thought about derendering them!

Brilliant!

Your so pwnage. This will help a lot in future.

Awesome!

Muffin - please come back to us. Check SA, and my server should be up right now.

May I have your babys muffin?

Everyone should know this -_-

Its so obvious for me... Knew it just after a few moments after v9 is released...

Only thing I didn't catch on at first were the less obvious things such as Relays (Never heard of the term before) and what ray casting does.
Other then that the rest is self explanatory, we don't really need an explanation on every feature.



This was obvious for me, I guess some people need to know this :/

Awesome!

Muffin - please come back to us. Check SA, and my server should be up right now.
We're back? forget yeah!

Everyone should know this -_-
From what I saw allot of folk, experienced or not, simply never thought of this idea. It's not that they didn't know what Rendering and that other stuff did, it's mostly just that the thought to combine this problem with DeRendering never crossed their minds. That's fine, most of the time they were too preoccupied making pinball machines and other funky event stuff.

This is just a small guide made especially to help the new guys, and it gives a heads up to the old guys who simply never had the idea cross their minds. I hope it helps :)