Slopes (sample wad)

[roy5050]

Does anyone know of a sample/tutorial wad showing sloping in action?<br><br>If you have one, or know where I can find one please contact Mike.

[moose]

HXDemo.wad has slopes and water in it. Download from the vavoom site.<br><br>I was going to write a tutorial for slopes after my one for water but couldn't really get the hang of slopes. :'(

[Janis Legzdinsh]

Doom2 and Heretic demo maps also have slopes.

[JinnaiGuy]

> I was going to write a tutorial for slopes after my one for water but couldn't really get the hang of slopes.

[moose]

I understand how slopes work now thanx.<br><br>Sorry I beat you to getting a water tutorial up. Have you seen it?

[SlayeR]

Hmm, that slopes method (the one in regular VaVoom) is kinda bad :/<br>How about adding the linedef slopes that ZDoom has? (the ones that dont need a thing to be placed to work)<br><br>One thing I've always thought would be cool (but quite hard to add in, and editors would also have ot be modified), is the ability to define a single vertice's height. This way, you could slope floors in the exact way you'd like...

[moose]

One thing I've always thought would be cool (but quite hard to add in, and editors would also have ot be modified), is the ability to define a single vertice's height. This way, you could slope floors in the exact way you'd like...

<br><br>You mean like what you get for proper 3D game editors like UnrealEd. If so I think its a good idea but hard (and I think someones said it befor) it would make mapping alot easyer for vavoom.

[RambOrc]

Yes, YES... being able to set the height of vertices (I guess they're the same as vertexes, or?) would be a real great help for creating complex outdoor sceneries. I once built a small hill... the first 2 slopes about 90 degrees to each other were easy, but putting the corner piece between them took me maybe an hour or more and in the end I was very pleased when it aligned perfectly at least to one of the sides (and was not good on the other side).

[Janis Legzdinsh]

A ZDoom style sloping shouldn't be hard to implement. In lots of cases it's easier to use, and use sloping with things where it can't be done with lines.<br><br>Vertex heights is OK if all sectors sloped are triangles, but for other shapes you would have to do a lots of calculations in order to make them coplanar.

[moose]

for natural landscapes I always use triangles so it shouldn't be to hard from me but useing things is hard to get it looking good.

[RambOrc]

Hey I'm ready to use triangle sectors any time if I can set vertex heights.  ;D<br><br>BTW if you implement all 3 methods in the end, I guess there'll have to be a priority list for the engine to know which method overrides which one if more than one present.

[JinnaiGuy]

OR you just be careful and try not to slope more then one way at a time

[Janis Legzdinsh]

Hey, the vertex height idea is possible - by adding another 2 thing types (one for floor and one for ceiling) that, placed on a vertex, defines it's height.

[Janis Legzdinsh]

Vertex heights in action:<br><br>http://www.vavoom-engine.com/images/shots/vertheights.jpg

[RambOrc]

Whoa, I guess the most beautiful about this one is that making the slopes on that shot took a minute or 2, right? <br><br>Am I right in guessing this new technology mostly solves the problem I had with the roofs back last year?