Spring RTS Engine

Is there any way to raise and lower the water level during a game?

There is a LUA-Script to change the Maps- heightmap in game by zwzsg for a KP-Map, if you would use this, you could simulate the effect.

Short answer is no. Long answer is yes, but its not worth the trouble.

Hmm it would be cool to see the terrain change. what KP map is it?

Palladium

Changing the water level would mean changing the height of the whole map, and for some unclear reason that is slow.

zwzsg wrote:Changing the water level would mean changing the height of the whole map, and for some unclear reason that is slow.

the reason is clear, pathing has to be reapplied to the entire map. takes a few seconds, like it does when pathing a map for the first time.

It's not really that slow. Make your map 12x12 or smaller and the slowdown isn't noticeable.

As I mentioned in the initial post that demo'ed the Lua
heightmap alteration routines, you can spread out the
processing by adjusting the map in segments. As an
example, you could split the map into 8x8 segments,
and process one segment every X number of game frames.
Tides don't move that quickly (even where I live, next to
the highest tidal variations in the world.)

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.ph ... 00#p172300

Something that I didn't mention in the initial post is that
you can mitigate the slope changes between segments by
running a smoothing pass along the segment seams after
it has been adjusted. The width of the smoothing segment
would be determined by the slope adjustment that you can
tolerate, and the amount of shift done in the adjustment.

A large area shift + seam smoothing passes is probably the
fastest way to go. The other thing that you might want to
look into is whether or not the water rendering state would
need to be updated for large heightmap changes (ask jk).

trepan wrote: (even where I live, next to
the highest tidal variations in the world.)

Wrong, wrong, the highest tidal variations occur where you live good Sir, and that is not just a coincedence. You create your own gravity field, that attracts all the water, now my company is willing to bid against every other bidder adding up +2000$ on the highest, just to have you near our tidal powerplants. This is a standing offer!

Was that a fat joke?

Either way it made me laugh.

Neddie wrote:Either way it made me laugh.

+1

PicassoCT wrote:

trepan wrote: (even where I live, next to
the highest tidal variations in the world.)

Wrong, wrong, the highest tidal variations occur where you live good Sir, and that is not just a coincedence. You create your own gravity field, that attracts all the water, now my company is willing to bid against every other bidder adding up +2000$ on the highest, just to have you near our tidal powerplants. This is a standing offer!

PicassoCT's first foray in to trolling and jokes?

hunterw wrote:
PicassoCT's first foray in to trolling and jokes?

Trolling? Seemed factually accurate...