Swim Region Question

[andylegate]

When you use a straight swim region, how fast can you make the velocities of the current that pulls you back?

In Ahnonay that current is pretty strong.

[Nadnerb]

uhmm..... as strong as you want? Just keep putting in big numbers and see what happens.

I don't think anyone knows the answer to this. Why don't you try it and let us know? I certainly haven't tried putting in "hurricane force water".

[Trylon]

in practice, IIRC around speeds of 2.0 you can barely swim against it in "walking" mode, and around speeds of 5 you can barely swim agains it in "running" mode

[andylegate]

Well I've put in up to 100 and can swim against it just fine!

Here is a copy of the ALCscript:

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style: straight
straight:
    centerpoint: swimcenter1
    neardist: 9
    nearvel: 100
    fardist: 200
    farvel: 75

The other part the code (IE naming the region and stuff) is there, just showing the flags for Straight type.

I know Ahnonay is circular type swimming, but I wanted to used straight in this case.

[Aloys]

I know very strong values used to work, maybe that has changed recently. I remember trying 'hurricane force' values as Nadnerb puts it, and it worked; which was pretty fun.

[andylegate]

Still trying to get the swim current to work right.

Problem is, Ahnonay was circular, so I guess it's a bad model to go off of, but it's the only one that I know of. I'm trying to achieve the same effect of , you can swim out so far but, you don't get anywhere after that.

Maybe I should go circular too? Problem is I'm trying to understand the ALCscripting for circular.

[andylegate]

WOAH!!!

Okay, THAT worked! Whew! My Avie was almost being THROWN up on to the shore! hehehehe, okay, now that I have the desired effect, I just need to work on the velocity so you don't feel like you're riding the rapids!