Elevation in Developer Help

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Aug 29 2005, 9:32 pm
I was thinking about the ability to make second floors etc. with people not seeing and interacting with each other on the separate floors. I heard that it was impossible, but what if you used the see invisible roof trick combined with an elevation system such as ebonyshadows? Some other things would need to be added to such a system, such as:
-The mobs invisibility rating changing when entering the higher floor(s) so that the people on the lower floors couldn't see them.
-Objects dropped on higher floors are automatically given invisibility appropriate to the floor
-Each floor would have its own invisibility level, top floor the highest then down from there
-Each floor would need its own set of objects/turfs appropriate to its levels variables

I realize that making the actual map would be hard since you couldn't change one level once the others are done, but its just an idea. However I wouldn't even know where to start coding, so if any ambitious people are out there with nothing to do here is something for you.
#1 Aug 30 2005, 4:12 am
Do you know how insanely confusing it would be to map that? :P

When I do stuff like that, I have like one map Z-level that's the "World map", then put the other maps like towns spread across the other Z-levels out of view of each other (so there may be 10 towns on a Z-level but you can't get to them except via world map)

Also, you're forgetting that even though the mobs on other floors the way you described will still have density :P people on level 1 will bump into people on the roof :(

That's what I would do for "elevation" o_O
#2 Aug 30 2005, 6:04 am
In response to Cowdude (#1)
Cowdude wrote:
Do you know how insanely confusing it would be to map that? :P

When I do stuff like that, I have like one map Z-level that's the "World map", then put the other maps like towns spread across the other Z-levels out of view of each other (so there may be 10 towns on a Z-level but you can't get to them except via world map)

Also, you're forgetting that even though the mobs on other floors the way you described will still have density :P people on level 1 will bump into people on the roof :(

That's what I would do for "elevation" o_O

From my experiences, making different levels of elevation's for buildings is a tad bit harder than EbonShadow's example. Which is why I suggested a new location variable a while back to add onto the traditional "x,y,z".