Stairs?

[Katu]

How can I make my modeled stairs (straight and curved) "really" be stairs? I mean a walkable doodad which acts like, for example, a ramp, but its a stairs. I suppose if I only make a stair then import it, the units will just go over/under it ingame.

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

Look at the massive Naga stairs.

They're destructibles, with the 'walkable' tag selected.

 

[Pyritie]

Does adding the "walkable" tag to a doodad (not a destructible) actually do anything?

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

Not to my knowledge.

 

[Katu]

So I only have to model the stairs and then set it to walkable? I supposed I have to make invisible helper surfaces or somethinglike that.

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

With a 'walkable' destructible, the unit is placed on the 'highest' piece of geometry that it is on top of; so don't try putting canopies or the like on the same model.

 

[Katu]

Okay, thanks,

one more question: if I put another (non walkable, non-pathed) doodad on the top of the stairs, does it screw up anything? For example if I set the Pathing texture to None on a tree doodad and put it in the middle of a ramp, what does the unit in the ramp do? Just go through the tree?

 

[Pyritie]

Yep, pretty much.

 

[iron_warrior]

http://world-editor-tutorials.thehelper.net/pathmaps.php

This is a very neat tutorial, not just for stairs.

 

[Katu]

I've dled tihs tutorial months ago, readed it, and it has nothing exact to say about how to create walkable destructives. SD_Ryoko just mentions some "invisible surfaces".

 

[Pyritie]

I thought we answered your question.

 

[Katu]

Yes.