Colossus Form... did anyone investigate?

[PinkFrog]

Hi!

I'm trying to have fun with the skill "colossus form". But its annoying: if i make it go smaller for 20 sec, its alright, but afterwards the char has huge pathing-size and wont even go through wide doors and the like. It gets stuck practically everywhere.

I reckon the pathing size gets increased when the msh scales up. In this case at the end of the skill-duration. And thus it stays scaled forever.

So, question: did anybody ever try to find where the scaling of the pathing is calculated? i couldnt see it in the viewer.exe when i fired the colossus-animation, nor anywhere in the artmanager.

darn, i really want this to work...

thanks, pf

P.S.: the stupid thing is, it doesnt even matter whether i scale to 0.90000 and back or 0.30000. And that is really annoying.

[DirtySanchez]

I'm confused. What do you want? CF with no growth in size due to the fact you get stuck in certain areas? All that should be controlled within the skill itself.

Sorry not sure exactly what you are asking for here.

[PinkFrog]

Hehe lol... you know what happened? I was so in modders mood that i got totally absorbed by the problem and kinda didnt step back to see if the stuff i wrote makes actual sense to somebody who is not sitting in my head...

So... i try again ^^

The situation is this: i want to create a skill called "Childhood". As a player you go back to the time when you were a child. The stats are a health-bonus, more speed, less strength and tadaa... increased experience-points per killed enemy. Because kids learn faster. So, as a visual feedback for the duration of the skill i wanted the reverted colossus. You know, shrinking... and afterwards going back to normal.

You can type into the colossus-form any size you want to have so this part is easy and it looks cool. The skill is perfect, funny to look at and fits the mastery (Which is a secret).

BUT, once the skill was performed, the player looks normal again, but has a huuuge invisible pathing-size. I.e. as a player i keep getting stuck at narrow places, although it looks like i should have heaps of space to go through. This means, i cant even leave helos, enter a cave etc.

So, i think. When the colossus-skill-logic scales the player-mesh, it also increases the pathing size. It makes sense: if you are huge, you should get stuck at narrow places. This seems to happen as well, wenn you have, like in my case, the shrinking first and growing back to normal afterwards. Only that the huge pathing-size is created at the end of the duration-time and stays on forever afterwards.

My question basically was, if anybody knows, what controls the radius of the pathing-size during colossus-form. And how it can be stopped ^^

Another strange thing i noticed is, that colossus never works with any other animation. That might have different reasons but its still strange.

Also, the huge pathing-size is very resistable: neither teleporting nor dying puts it back to normal... arghhh

[The Envenomed Kiss]

Like i've said before collosus form collides with objects because it increases the actor height by a set %. If you increase scale by % however you get the same effect but are still able to go through doors and path around certain objects.

It's like actor is the physical part of your character, but scale is the visual part of your character. But... you should now this. So I ask is this what you were asking?

[PinkFrog]

Ok, lets put it this way:

I made a skill (using the colossus-form as a base) in which the player turns smaller (not bigger!!) for 20 secs and back to normal afterwards.

After using the skill once there is a stupid bug: the player can never enter a cave or similar again, even though he/she has his/her normal size again.

I want to enter a cave after using the skill. Can s.o. help me?

hmm... was that better as an explanation?