[General] Partially underground building

[Vorox]

I lowered the height of a building in the object editor, to make only a part of it visible. It looks right in the editor, but ingame it looks normal (as in it has regular height). What could be wrong?

 

[Veritas 117]

Try setting the Movement - Height and Movement - Height Minimum to the same negative value. If that still doesn't work then you will have to edit the model using Magos Model Editor. It's a pretty simple edit just select all the vertices and change the translation Z value to a negative number. Keep doing it until you get it where you want then save and reimport.

 

[Jaina Proudless]

This is a simple fix. For the building to actually change its height you must alter the "Movement - Type" value to "Hover".

 

[Flux]

As far as I know, you can't have negative height. You have no choce but to edit the model and translate it in the z-coordinate which will take about 5 seconds to do.

 

[Wietlol]

But re-importing is a pain.
Local files FTW!

 

[Squiggy]

I have a weird way of approaching this.

First, make a duplicate of your building and set the original's values to:
Is a Structure: False
Collision: 0
Pathing: NONE
Placement Requires: - (nothing)
Height: -X (whichever)
Ability: Locust
Movement Type: Fly/Float
The building is now an unselectable, flying unit you cannot move.

Now, it's time to cheat:
Put your duplicated structure on TOP of the one that was being lowered underground.
Set the shadow to: NONE

The duplicate building is now a dummy ON TOP of the original bulding.
Lastly, in triggers, do:

• Animation - Set 'Unit (Duplicate)' Vertex Coloring to 100%, 100%, 100% with 1.00 alpha

to make it invisible.
You can either do this using preplaced units on the map or dynamically assign the alpha by doing some comparison-type condition which buildings are affected when X happens.
Hovering the mouse over it will select as usual.

However, there is a major limitation/downside to this:
The model portrait will be empty when selecting a transparent unit/structure.
And: due to the edginess of this approach, you won't be able to construct buildings without handling that the same way and manually trigger the construction cycle animation to the lowered unit or something.

 

[Legal_Ease]

??? Add crow form, remove crow form, set flying height to -negative. ???

Unit - Add crow form to Shorty_Boulder_Tower Unit - Remove crow form to Shorty_Boulder_Tower Animation - Set Shorty_Boulder_Tower's flying height to -60 over 0.00 It's worth a shot, if the "hover" idea doesn't work.

 

[Jaina Proudless]

Setting movement type to hover works. I tried it out myself before posting.

I just forgot to mention that you also must change the "Art - Elevation Sample Points" value to 0.

You need to set movement type to hover if you want to change the height in any way, increase it or decrease it.

evidence

 

[Vorox]

Thanks for all the replies, I got it working using the hover method .