Crushing 3D floors

[Enjay]

Primarily I want this because I was playing a level that I'd made and I wandered under a 3D platform as it lowered. Rather than casually standing there with a platform pushing down on my head until I got out of the way, logically I should have been taking damage from it.

I can see 4 ways in which damage should happen to a player:

1 - no damage - the current situation
2 - damage if the floor pushes down on the player from above
3 - damage if the floor pushes up on the player from below
4 - both 2 and 3

Obviously, how damaging etc would be nice too. Would this be possible? (Or maybe it can be done already somehow - but I couldn't see/think of anything.)

[KeksDose]

I bump this idea because I just seconded it

[The Ultimate DooMer]

Is there an acs command that returns the floor/ceiling height of a sector? If so you could script a crusher by having it damage the player when it's 56 units off the floor and you're on the real sector's floor.

[farlowj]

But what if you're crouching? Is there a command to determine your height then?


By the way, this suggestions is thirded.

[DoomerMrT]

fourthed.Yep,it would be nice too if we could define how much damage the player(or other actor)will take when the 3D is crushing:Instant death etc...

[Graf Zahl]

Yeah, it would be nice - but there's a little problem:

It would require a completely new set of action specials, significant changes to the floor/ceiling movement code (because the code assumes that a rising ceiling/lowering floor cannot crush) and probably some other things I haven't thought about as well.

[Enjay]

That's a shame. Oh well, it'll just have to be one of those game oddities then.

[Graf Zahl]

Should be doable with clever use of linked sectors now.