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From:The Land Of Beer & Chocolate
Registered: Jan 2002

posted 05-22-2002 03:01 PM               

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.....those platforms that disintegrate when you step on them (can't explain it otherwise). Or are these objects?

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posted 05-22-2002 04:58 PM               

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They're the object "Falling_Block".

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From:The Land Of Beer & Chocolate
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posted 05-22-2002 05:28 PM               

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Thank you!!

Now the thingy has a name and I can start looking for it.

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From:Eilat, Israel
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posted 05-23-2002 05:59 AM               

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But a name is not enough!!! To make them "solid" so Lara can stand on them before they fall, these objects (falling_block) need to be triggered as DUMMY TRIGGERS. If you do not trigger them, Lara will just fall through them as if they didn't even exist. So, place your object over a pit, select it and then, on the square underneath the object, place a Dummy trigger (selected from the trigger type in the trigger window).
Hope this will save you some mad time!!!
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posted 05-23-2002 06:03 AM               

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Thank you jbc21. I did not know this and I'm quit certain that you have spared me some time figuring this thing out!

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posted 05-23-2002 06:46 AM               

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You're welcome!!!!!

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From:Den Haag, The Netherlands
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posted 05-24-2002 01:58 AM               

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the falling block is in ang_race.tr4, jeepchs2.tr4 and joby2.tr4

you may also experience a lack of "crumbling sound" once you step on the falling block, if that's the case: backup your wad, go to the LevelSFX Creator folder in DOS and type: pcwadsfx <wadfilename> b
this command should fix the lack of sounds, it did for me when I inserted the falling block into my level

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posted 05-24-2002 02:32 AM               

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Originally posted by Driber_IF:
go to the LevelSFX Creator folder in DOS and type: pcwadsfx <wadfilename> b
this command should fix the lack of sounds, it did for me when I inserted the falling block into my level

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how comes the "b" letter..? didn't this take away many of the other sounds you had in your wad..?

Anyhow, if you can't add those sounds in your wad, Collin, you can simply put them really high... if I remember well, my falling blocks (aka "floating platforms") HAVE the sounds in the COTW, you can start from them to build yours... (at least they had it in the beginning while projecting COTW, but I edited to many times the sound.txt, so I can't remember now )...

They are done by several meshes (the "composed one" and the pieces: mine are with "lights" on while floating normal, the lights are off when they are crumbling, like if they were "broken" by the heavy...

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From:Den Haag, The Netherlands
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posted 05-27-2002 11:52 AM               

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Originally posted by psiko:
how comes the "b" letter..? didn't this take away many of the other sounds you had in your wad..?

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this method was recommended by Mulf some time ago, it solved the lack of crumbling sound in my level and I have had no problems with other sound FX after I used that command

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