GetActorZ to ignore 3D Floor?

[LOZ_98]

I'm trying to create a Hazardous situation where if player is below a specified thing, he receives damage, and for the most part it works just as I need it to

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 If( GetActorZ(0) <= (GetActorZ (hurtsectortag) )  )
{
	 Spawn("HazardThing",GetActorX(0)
				             ,GetActorY(0)
				             ,GetActorZ(0));
}

However I'm having this small but annoying issue where If the player is standing on a 3D Floor it will calculate the height from above that 3D Floor rather than the whole sector, meaning returning value is always the same whether you're below or above the 3D Floor, Is there anyway to tell the game to ignore the 3D Floors? Like can I get the exact Z Position? Thanks in advance.

[LOZ_98]

Any idea on how to solve this? no matter what I do it always returns the value relative to the floor player is standing on, I want it to basically ignore 3D Floors.

[Graf Zahl]

GetActorZ returns the absolute Z-position. It appears you are making a wrong assumptions somewhere but that code fragment is too small to give you any advice.

[LOZ_98]

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script 23 (int hurtsectortag) //hurtsectortag is the tag of the thing to use to compare Z Positions.
{
    If( (GetActorZ(0)) > (GetActorZ(hurtsectortag)) )
	{
	 Print(s:"Moving above the actor");
	}
	else
    If( (GetActorZ(0)) <= (GetActorZ(hurtsectortag)) )
    {
	 Print(s:"Moving Below the actor");
	 Spawn("HazardThing",GetActorX(0)
				             ,GetActorY(0)
				             ,GetActorZ(0));
    }
}

This is basically the full code, I don't really understand what I'm doing wrong, Little help please :/ Also the script is re-executed every tick from another script, and it works just fine but it acts really strange when standing on 3D Floors.

[Graf Zahl]

Are you sure that the hurtsectortag thing actually is where you expect it to be?

[LOZ_98]

Yeah I'm pretty sure, It's placed below the 3D Floor, however when I stand on the 3D Floor I receive damage. It's like the game is calculating the height relative to the 3D Floor and not giving the exact position, this is confusing.

[Graf Zahl]

You need to analyze the situation instead of just guessing. Print out the coordinates you get and see if they are correct.

[LOZ_98]

So I tried Printing GetActorZ for both the player and the thing, for some reason it seems the Z Height updates relative to the 3D Floor whenever I step above the 3D Floor inside the same sector where the thing is placed (read: Prints height of 0 rather than the actual height), the game thinks I'm below the height of actor and spawns the actor eventhough I'm in fact above both the 3D Floor and the Thing, I've no idea why this is happening, It made it seem like GetActorZ does not ignore the 3D Floor, know how I can solve this?

EDIT : Solved, somehow there was another actor using the same tag elsewhere on the map, changing that actor's tag fixed it, If anyone is still having this issue make sure to check your tags lol, I feel dumb, Thanks for the help, really appreciate it.

[Matt]

Shouldn't [wiki]GetActorZ[/wiki] return the absolute position anyway?

Is it at all possible some other thing is interfering with the result?

[LOZ_98]

Matt thanks for the help, Indeed that was it, I somehow gave another thing the same tag as the hurt thing (dunno how that happened) giving it a different tag solved it, Thanks again really appreciate it, and sorry If I sounded dumb lol

[Matt]

I wonder if there's a way to get a unique TID in ACS without ZScript...

[LOZ_98]

There is, I used it twice or so for something non-mapping related, It's UniqueTID(min, max);