[Feature Request] False Floor/Ceiling Teleport

[Chris]

This idea is quite similar to using invisible fake floors/ceilings with an action special to execute a special when the eyes go below the fake floor. However, such a thing is limited when it comes to stacked sectors. My idea would allow the player (or another object) to fall through the actual sector floor, and to be teleported elsewhere once the view point is below the floor height (ditto for the ceiling). This way, you could easilly make a stack sector area where the player could move freely between the two sectors by simply giving it a teleport special, or an ACS_Execute special that calls a teleport. With that, you don't have to muck around with fake floors and ceilings and getting the height "just right", and even then, certain constructions won't work (see image).

[Agent ME]

So you mean the upper stack sector floor wouldn't block the player, and he'd be teleported to the lower sector when his eyes pass the "divider"? That's exactly what I wanted too (but I just forgot to ask for it... I have like a million feature requests in this "brain," but I forget them within 10 minutes).

[Chris]

So you mean the upper stack sector floor wouldn't block the player, and he'd be teleported to the lower sector when his eyes pass the "divider"?

Exactly. I'd actually like true object displacement as well (so that if your feet are below the floor, your feet would be hanging from the other ceiling, even if the rest of you was still in the upper area), but as I understand, that's something that was brought up before with fake floor teleports and not easilly done.

[Agent ME]

Well, that was done with Transfer_Heights, wasn't it?

[Chris]

Transfer_Heights with a "eyes go below fake floor" object that calls a teleport special, yeah. I suppose it might be easier with false floors, but I'm not holding my breath on it.

I would like to append my request though. Instead of leaving the mapper to teleport the object/player, the engine could do that implicitly (avoiding the possibility of errors with the object not teleporting) but also execute a special when the teleport occurs.

[Agent ME]

There's a problem with the method of using Tranfer_Height's eyes below/above floor to teleport the player. In the stacked sectors, looking down from the upper area, you won't see any items/players/enemies/projectiles that are down there, and vice versa.

[Chris]

In the stacked sectors, looking down from the upper area, you won't see any items/players/enemies/projectiles that are down there, and vice versa.

I know there was a bug when stacked sectors first came out about monsters in the other sector stack would show through the floor/ceiling texture.. it was quickly fixed. Are you saying it was fixed by no longer drawing objects on the other side?

[Agent ME]

No, it's a side-effect of using Transfer_heights to teleport the player from the top/bottom sector to the bottom/top sector. It's unfixable (without ugly hacks that would break compatibility with hundreds of wads) except for switching to a new way, like the one you want.

[Chris]

Oh, ok. I've never used Transfer_Height teleports, so I wouldn't know it had that problem.

[Agent ME]

Basically, the problem is to hard to describe in words in a basic way.

[Tormentor667]

Well, yeah, I second that

[Nmn]

That screenshot needs more detail

[Chris]

I had just started it that day, and had been working on getting the player to fall down seemlessly through the stack. Cut me some slack. </bad rhyme>