Lava

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Vengeancekael
Date: 2012/Sep/07 15:15:40
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[HappyTauren]

Just a notice, lava in the screenshot is scaled 2X for x and y and 0.2X for z scale.

 

[David]

nice

 

[Misha]

lol.. you go from micro to macro xD

 

[Maestros]

excellent!!! Thanks!!

 

[xorkatoss]

wow awesome and really helpful, thnx! 5/5

 

[Accname]

Maybe you should make it a little bit smaller then a 64x64 map.
The size of a townhall maybe.
This way you could plaze small pools of lava instead of covering large portions of the map at once.

 

[Fingolfin]

Omg why are you so awesome?

 

[HappyTauren]

Maybe you should make it a little bit smaller then a 64x64 map.
The size of a townhall maybe.
This way you could plaze small pools of lava instead of covering large portions of the map at once.

This can't be done because of the way texture is 'animated'. You can align two lava pieces one next to the other, but there will be seams because they won't start animating at the same time, that's why I've resorted to this option.

 

[Vengeancekael]

What's up with these lines:

 

[HappyTauren]

It defaults below the terrain level, this is done for easy height control (so that you can ALWAYS level it with ground, no matter what happens). You are supposed to scale it twice (I didn't do it in the model due to technical reasons) and have it cover the whole map, and adapt height via doodad controls, that's really the one and only way it will work well.

 

[Tickles]

Isn't this an edit of the water model from Wc3C? Moving lava is always really useful, but there's no mention of iNfraNe.

 

[HappyTauren]

Nope, this is made from scratch, his water model uses a completely different mechanic, it works by changing the texture id, this works by utilizing a texture animation. I have, however, used a similar system as far as plane stacking goes, to give some feeling of 'depth', so he could get the credit for giving me that idea.

 

[Sliph-M]

Very Useful!

 

[rcshaggy]

I got to admit it would very useful and is there any way to make it if you go on the lava it hurts you?
Oh and would be sweet if you made it burn you to death.

 

[Deros]

Very nice model.

 

[boomwolf]

I got to admit it would very useful and is there any way to make it if you go on the lava it hurts you?
Oh and would be sweet if you made it burn you to death.

Triggers with regions seems to be the answer there.


Anyway, nice concept, I can see how this will be put into good use by quite a few people in the future.

 

[Kingz]

Ahh you uploaded this

I really like it, good job.

 

[Whitewolf8]

This is just great.
I don't think I have a use for it, but if I did i'd so use this. XD

 

[Uncle Fester]

Wow! That looks pretty cool.

 

[Mgeterno11]

Looks really awesome, and useful, too. Good for hell-looking maps.
I have just tried it, and it works. I have found out that if you place water on it the lava can be only seen in the water. 5/5

 

[Tank-Commander]

Was wondering when somebody would get this idea, was expecting it to arise close to when SC2 was released with a similar idea of being able to rise/lower water/lava levels. Pretty awesome that somebody eventually did it, very useful for many maps and certainly one of my favourites.

 

[Gen Bloodhorn]

wow! now people will not use red water Anymore! 5/5 and rep

Warlord ajer'laroir's idea is also great

 

[Anvil]

Useful, but this looks good only scaling the model a bit, otherwise it looks strange.

 

[Aztec_devil2000]

This is great! 5/5

 

[~DARK~]

Burning ! Nice

 

[Misha]

Useful, but this looks good only scaling the model a bit, otherwise it looks strange.

it is supposed to be scaled to cover entire map, Sherlock

 

[HappyTauren]

The reason I didn't scale the model in a model editor is because it started to bug terribly (planes were too big).

 

[Anvil]

it is supposed to be scaled to cover entire map, Sherlock

The model is really big right now... I know that the model is made to cover the map, it was just a comment. I made even larger models and worked just fine. Sometimes if you rescale the model, that thing makes the model have errors, it's best to enlarge the model and export it again from the program that you use to create them.

 

[Mechanical Man]

Reminds me of the sky doodad for my air humans map.

 

[Misha]

hmm.. this.. + some alpha see-through tile = awesome rickety "bridge" over the lava?

or are doodads better still?

 

[HappyTauren]

I am gonna make a bridge with individually modeled rocks (separated, so you can see lava through cracks) for the compo, so you needn't worry

 

[Bernkastel]

So it has finally arrived.

..Amusing.

 

[Vortballat]

cool,i like it

 

[Arhowk]

I might use this in a future project, but for now theres a problem i can see with this.

From what i recall, the warcraft 3 unrenders models outside of the screen radius. Does this somehow bypass this?

 

[HappyTauren]

Do you really think I'd upload a model like this if it had an issue like that.

 

[Arhowk]

Do you really think I'd upload a model like this if it had an issue like that.

Maybe

 

[HappyTauren]

Totally forgot about that, good catch!

 

[Rui]

Can't believe we finally have a lava doodad that makes us not have to rely on doodad tricks. Awesome indeed, HappyTauren. =)

 

[bhusta]

Yeah it looks nice but it also eats fps like children eat up candy on Christmas Eve. I suggest that you to create a smaller version of this model like the water model from the UTM. So one can use this model for multiplayer maps.

Extremly awsome model!

 

[HappyTauren]

if it's eating cpu or fps and doesn't work in mp, you're using it wrong. Scale it 2x and make sure its very center is always visible to every player. Also, this can't be done lije the water model because it has to tile, you'd have seams since they don'u appear at the same time..

 

[BiroN]

Great idea, great model. THANKS!

EDIT 27/3/2016: Testing this in a map was disappointing. I scaled it to 2x so it almost covered the entire map, and it worked perfectly in the editor, however in-game in didn't show. You can't see it in-game because it's out of the screen radius like Arhowk said, there has to be a unit having the center of the lava within its line of sight at all times for this to work. I'm really disappointed because I was really looking forward to using this.

 

[Warseeker]

Now this is the true lava!

 

[Snarbolax]

I'm kinda new to editing, I was just wondering how to apply this to my Terrain Platelet (p.s. I'm editing an Pre-made map)

 

[thorlar]

5/5 Easiest lava implementation ever.

 

[carcanosc]

I want to sustitute infestation ground with this. How can I do it???

 

[Fingolfin]

That's not possible, sorry.

 

[Saken]

Works great in-game! Thanks!

 

[MN Lahmar]

Looks great in-game. Excellent job! Well done