Making a Waterfall

[Daxter_06]

For all you scripters here's a piece that will allow you to create a waterfall.

  WaterfallPos = marker at {ENTER POSITION HERE}
  WaterFX = create visual effect "gp_s_physwaterfall.ves" strength 0.1 scale 3 at {WaterfallPos} time -1

Enjoy!!

EDIT: Here's a screenie of a waterfall I added to one of my lands in ToTC.

 

[Kays]

Now that is cool. :yes

Been wondering how that was done.

How do you know what visual effects are available?

 

[Daxter_06]

Opened up Lionhead's land1.chl file with MS Word, and unlike Wordpad it doesn't show the script variables, it shows constants and strings that were used.

I searched for Waterfall in the file and I found all these visual effects for the waterfall and the main one was "gp_s_physwaterfall.ves". There were others like "gp_s_waterfall_ground.ves", "gp_s_seaspray.ves" and "gp_s_waterripple.ves".

 

[Daxter_06]

One extra thing about the waterfall is that it moves depending on the landscape.

If you set its scale to 10 and you a mountain shaped with turns and twists from the top to the bottom, then the waterfall will stay within those bounds until it reaches the bottom.