[very annoying] Under water air supply

[Graf Zahl]

Yes, the issue came up again:

http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=5186


So how about adding a MAPINFO flag that can set the air supply time under water. And if it is set to 0 there is no underwater damage?

This 10 second limit makes any attempt to create decent underwater levels a futile effort.

[Enjay]

Yes please.

[Anakin S.]

In Hexen 2 and Heretic 2, there's a powerup that allows you to hold your breath longer underwater. Maybe this could be made into a powerup for zdoom as well?

[Enjay]

The powerup sounds cool, but being able to remove (or extend) the oxygen time would be very, very useful for all sorts of reasons. Aside from anything else, the Doomguy is wearing a helmet.

Perhaps another special or thing could also be added, with a similar mapinfo flag (actually, maybe the special already exists because some Strife levels already behave like this). I mean to have sectors that start damaging after you have been in them for a defined period of time - but without making them swimable. I know scripting can do this, it's just a suggestion. However, the swimable water mapinfo flag gets two thumbs up from me.



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[Graf Zahl]

In Hexen 2 and Heretic 2, there's a powerup that allows you to hold your breath longer underwater. Maybe this could be made into a powerup for zdoom as well?

That might also be a good idea. But the hard coded 10 second limit is too rigid. You can't do anything with it. Just think about the cool underwater levels in SSD which were such a pain to play because you had to be extremely careful with your air supply. It was no fun. You can make levels where 10 seconds is a good time but there are also cases where the air supply should last longer by default to make them playable.

[TheDarkArchon]

In Hexen 2 and Heretic 2, there's a powerup that allows you to hold your breath longer underwater. Maybe this could be made into a powerup for zdoom as well?

*coughcoughRadSuitcough*

[bimshwel]

You should see a doctor about that.

[Ultraviolet]

Also useful would be a player airtimer aprop to set. You could do stuff like the bubbles in Alice.

[Graf Zahl]

Good idea. Water would be so much more useful if the mapper had more control over it...

[Graf Zahl]

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		// Handle air supply
		if (level.airsupply>0)
		{
			if (player->mo->waterlevel < 3 ||
				(player->mo->flags2 & MF2_INVULNERABLE) ||
				(player->cheats & CF_GODMODE))
			{
				player->air_finished = level.time + level.airsupply*TICRATE;
			}
			else if (player->air_finished <= level.time && !(level.time & 31))
			{
				P_DamageMobj (player->mo, NULL, NULL, 2 + 2*((level.time-player->air_finished)/TICRATE), MOD_WATER);
			}
		}

Do it yourself! Of course it also needs the new option added to MAPINFO.

[Ajapted]

Give the player things in DECORATE a "lungcapacity" property.

[Graf Zahl]

No. This should be configurable by level, not by player class.

[MasterOFDeath]

I want translucent water damnit.

Heh, but anyways, the idea of increased air supply is awesome. Maybe in this new map I'm making I could make good use of it (see my title, and no its not a jokewad. ;P )

[Kirby]

I want translucent water damnit.

Well, if you don't mind the player not going underneath it, you can do it with portals

[MasterOFDeath]

Yeah but there are 2 problems besides going underneath it.

1. Sprites get cut off.
2. Zdoom's portal coding sucks, any map with portals locks up on me within 2-7 minuites and sometimes I have to restart my PC.