Dissapearing Corpses

[blarg]

I had just finished a somewhat complicated area involving a pit of slime with overflows at one point and engulfs the surrounding sectors.
There are a few corpses/gory decorations in the amphibious flood-plain area, and in single player everything works great.

The wad is meant to be played in deathmatch, though, so I ran a deathmatch game with my friend and found the gory decorations in the flood-plain sectors to be clipped, like the way that can be defined in a TERRAIN lump, but on the off chance that the TERRAIN lump was to blame I removed the floor clipping from the slime flat I was using. No dice.

It only happens to the non-corpse decorations, so the Dead Demon and Dead Imp were fine, where as the Pool of Brains (DoomEd #81), Pool of Blood (DoomEd #79), and the Small Pool of Blood (DoomEd #80) were nearly or completley invisible.

I believe this is cause by the Transfer Heights (209) involved with these sectors. The heights are still being transferred even though the sector appears to be a completely normal and solid one, although I have no idea how to fix it without removing my corpses, and without them the area is pretty bland looking.

I use DB, XWE, and ZDoom v.2.2.0 with OS Windows 98SE if that helps.

[EarthQuake]

Hmm, tricky situation. You could try giving the corpses "no gravity" with DeHackEd or DECORATE, and using a script to make them "jump" with the Thing_ThrustZ function. You'd have to tweak it a bit so they rise with the water level, but I think it should work. Maybe even make them solid and pushable for added effect (although you might get weird results if you pushed them into the air). :)

[blarg]

O.K, I'll try that, although I won't bother to make them float, there isn't enough room between the rising water and the ceiling in the area where most of the corpses are.

[EarthQuake]

If you're not using them in an area where water is rising, then you can just set "no gravity" and then set the corpses thing heights (assuming you're using Hexen format). I thought you wanted corpses that floated upward with the rising water level. Although floating corpses on slime would be a mighty cool thing to add. ;)

[Black Metal]

It would definitely look cool, though could you maybe manipulate a bridge piece somehow, or make a sector raise with it, and then sink it while setting no gravity on it?

[EarthQuake]

Doesn't work. The things will still lower when the bridge does. Although I've noted if you put weapons and such on an instant-lowering lift, then they appear to drop to the ground. That might do the trick though. Just lift a floor momentarily and instantly with the "no gravity" corpses.