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Don't forget, you can also fly up there, there will be landing pads.

I think elevators are fine. They work so far, also gives it a better sense of reality.

WOW! That looks amazing but ive just gone crazy!!! Sry but i gona stop DMI and possible swbf2 modding cus im gona start moddin HL2. (i think). Anyway sry to stop guys but i cant take this anymore.

yeah, I think the teleporting elevator is a good idea. Mind you there is a problem with teleporting elevators: they can only bring you one way. So you're going to need two elevators, one to go up and one to go down.

Another foreseeable problem is buildings with more than two floors for the elevator to stop at. If you have levels, 1, 2, 3, and 4, there's no way to have the elevator that makes multiple stops since you can't have a 'starting region' and an 'ending node' in the same place.

trainmaster611 wrote:yeah, I think the teleporting elevator is a good idea. Mind you there is a problem with teleporting elevators: they can only bring you one way. So you're going to need two elevators, one to go up and one to go down.

Another foreseeable problem is buildings with more than two floors for the elevator to stop at. If you have levels, 1, 2, 3, and 4, there's no way to have the elevator that makes multiple stops since you can't have a 'starting region' and an 'ending node' in the same place.

if it's possible to trigger the teleporter in an area you're standing in, you could have little boxes numbered for each floor inside the elevator. when a box dies, the teleportation is triggered and you're shot up to the desired floor. I talked it over with my friend, and he suggested this, and i thought it was a good idea (if it works)

Silas wrote:...you could have little boxes numbered for each floor inside the elevator. when a box dies, the teleportation is triggered and you're shot up to the desired floor...

Yeah, multi-floor stuff would have to be done that way with a normal elevator too, unless you wanted the player to jump out while it was moving...

What is the region limit?

You don't need two 'elevator shafts' for a two-way teleporter. You can have the trigger region in the back half of the elevator cart and the transport point in the front half. Whenever someone walks into the region, they get teleported to the oppsite transport point.

Also, the transport points don't have to directly line up like an elevator has to. If you wanted an 'elevator hub' in the sky, it would be doable.

[RDH]Zerted wrote:What is the region limit?

I think that Mav can confirm this, as he hit it while making Spira, but I'm pretty sure it's around 70.

Frisbeetarian wrote:

[RDH]Zerted wrote:What is the region limit?

I think that Mav can confirm this, as he hit it while making Spira, but I'm pretty sure it's around 70.

It's exactly 70.

[RDH]Zerted wrote:

Silas wrote:...you could have little boxes numbered for each floor inside the elevator. when a box dies, the teleportation is triggered and you're shot up to the desired floor...

Yeah, multi-floor stuff would have to be done that way with a normal elevator too, unless you wanted the player to jump out while it was moving...

What is the region limit?

You don't need two 'elevator shafts' for a two-way teleporter. You can have the trigger region in the back half of the elevator cart and the transport point in the front half. Whenever someone walks into the region, they get teleported to the oppsite transport point.

Also, the transport points don't have to directly line up like an elevator has to. If you wanted an 'elevator hub' in the sky, it would be doable.

Yeah I thought about that later. You could have a teleporting elevator on every floor that brings you to a central 'elevator room'. Then you go into another elevator that brings you where you want to go (one elevator for each floor).

That way, you only need two elevators per level (unless you insist on doing the front-half, back-half thing which is kind of confusing) and you can start from anywhere and go to anywhere.

I think Trainmaster's idea is a good one. The only downside I foresee is that that could potentially use move regions than the box-thingy, depending on how many stops the owner wishes it to make.

Hey guys! I would like to add my building to the 'upper city', but I don't know how to tape measure up and down..... Could you tell me how please? Thanks!

General_Nate wrote:Hey guys! I would like to add my building to the 'upper city', but I don't know how to tape measure up and down..... Could you tell me how please? Thanks!

The BF2_modtools.exe has a command in the console for measuring height, and height in XSI is equal to height in ZE.

Thanks! I just noticed.... I BUMPED! Sorry about that.....

if you select a vertex in xsi at the way top or wherever, you can see the x y z coordinates, where the y would be height in xsi.