Make 3D floor side move with floor

[Enjay]

Clumsy title is clumsy.

I'm hoping that someone can help me out with this setup. Consider the following screenshot and example file:

Brick.zip

The brick "tower" is not actually a tower - it is made from a 3D floor (its upper surface is 32 units below the ceiling of the room). When the switch is used, the floor of the control sector for the 3D floor rises by 384 units. This makes the bottom of the tower rise - making the 3D structure much smaller by the end of the move.

All that works fine. However, I want the brick textures on the sides of the 3D floor to move up with the floor. At present, they don't move. I have tried as many pegged/unpegged combinations as I can think of for both the lines around the tower in the play area and the control sector. I have also tried setting the 3D floor control line so that the tower uses upper or lower textures from the play-area sector. Nothing I have tried works.

Can anyone suggest something that might? Please feel free to download the simple test file and have a mess around with it to see if you can get anything working. It is very simple but represents a structure that I am trying to make in a real map (where the texture moving style that I am looking for would make more sense).

Thanks

[Kappes Buur]

Using action special 96 will raise both floor and ceiling, but keep the texture 'stationary'.
FloorAndCeiling_RaiseByValue ( 2, 8, 384);

But you also want the 3D sector ceiling to be 32 mu below the game sector ceiling, which
presents another bit of a dilemma.

The best I can come up with is this:

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#include "zcommon.acs"

script 1 (void)
{
    FloorAndCeiling_RaiseByValue ( 2, 8, 384);
    Tagwait ( 2);
    Ceiling_LowerInstant ( 2, 0, 48);
}
 

Example pwad:

[Rachael]

This is the best I can do. I tried everything I could think of, but ended up linking the floor and ceiling together. I don't know if it's ideal for your use case, but it does work.

[ZomBieMan Alpha]

hey i think this is what you want! is a bit hacky but it see fine
https://www.dropbox.com/s/eg58ceb9w0abc ... k.wad?dl=0

[Enjay]

Thanks for the suggestions and demos. Obviously all of them get the textures moving but the two that also move the top of the 3D floor wouldn't suit the situation in the actual map because the top of the floor can be seen pretty easily by the player and it needs not to move. I should have been clearer about that in my initial post.

However, hacky or not, ZombieMan Alpha's idea of scrolling the textures at the same rate as the movement while the floor is moving does seem to give exactly the effect that I'm looking for. So, if it can't be done with the textures "naturally" following the movement of the floor, forcing it like this may well be the answer. [edit] and it works very nicely in the real map too.[/edit]

Thank you all once again.

[Guest]

One more solution. No acs required, just one more tag and one new action line inside the 3d dummy sector. On Enjay's map:

- Move the vertex #8 32 units to the point (-32, 416)
- Give the linedef #8 the action type 222: Scroll texture model, give it some free Line Tag number and set it's Options bit to displacement.
- For linedef #10, the 160: Sector 3D sector line, give the tag number as it's line Identification Tag.

If it's a problem that decals, bullet holes etc. won't scroll with the raising brick object, the decals can be disabled from appearing on that wall by setting some scroll texture line action with zero movement on all 3d sector walls. For example 100: Scroll texture left and 0 as it's scroll speed. Not sure if that's a legal usage of that though...