sorry for the horrible guide, just dont know how to make these stuff clear.

where did you get that position object tool

just download reyks editor X 2.

thanx

Hehehe, some weird/neat effects there big A. The floating carnivora looks like a veggy sputnik over Antarctica. I can see that with a little imagination some of those elements may be used to create some pretty original forms. The mist stairs is really weird!

Unless stuff changed, didn't Reyk's possition object tool not work for making stuff float? They would always rest to normal height when you're in-game or in the editor after saving it.

While we're on the subject of tricks, I'll name a few of mine

You can change the direction of smoke or fire or any of those sprite object by tilting or rotating them them - or you could make them dissapear, like in your screenshot with the campfire. The smoke especially is nice since you can make it blow in a direction, as if there was a strong wind.

You can make some really awesome fog by taking the square clouds that you see in the game menu and rotating them down to ground level, and then placing a few more there to fill in the gaps. If you look at those while the elevation is pitched to ground level they look awesome. Horse Race had something like this in it.

You can make some rapids/rivers by tilting waterfalls, thoug hit's really hard to get it to look right.

and that's all I can remember for now though really the list never ends since you have so much freedom with AoM's editor

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Nice tricks there auron!

Yeah, I have to agree with that. The flying woman looks cool... Superman...

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i tested some of the objectis, like the flying villager, and it still floats in-game. i actually took some of those screenshots while in-game. and everyone knows about the rapid waterfalls. i just named some stuff that is barely heard of.
EDIT: i think i mention that not all units are able float in-game or something?

hey, did you guys know that some units make breathing noise? like the frost giant!. and i dunno if you guys have notice, but the difference between, a river and a ocean is that the ocean have rally cool lines, that gives it a more cooler water effect and waves can be added to it, without having to do it manually.

EDIT: @Cheezy, it doesnt work in-game?

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[This message has been edited by auron 2 (edited 04-25-2004 @ 03:16 PM).]

The water thing is quite interesting. I'll have to keep that in mind...

This was on MM and AD. I bet you just copy and pasted it.

yep, re-typing it would be a waste of time

Too bad there's no solution for rings around really small units.

small units dont make outlines.

I've certainly seen it happen before. When I was shrinking an Automaton, as I recall.

The villager is rotated, any unit that you rotate will float in the air like that since they rotate on an axis, if the axis is in the center and the object is vertical, then that would happen. People have been using that for a long time, but it's cool none the less all the stuff you can do with it.

Oh and I was talking about using the raise tool in the new editor - I suppose Reyk got a way to fixing it since in the old versions I helped him with it would only work in the editor.

Oh, the difference between oceans and rivers? Oceans have more underlaying terrain layers, otherwise you can add waves to any water body by beautifying it.

Great guide, can I put it on the Design Library?

lol really? well, if is gonna be on the design library, just let me make it more pretty

edited, now it looks a little better. i really appreciate the interest on this topic. i didnt even look at this as a guide. thanx.

i know i've already said this but great guide

I didnt understand how to make units float.

Been here before me thinks...
Why bump a two month old topic :P

Yeah i thought id seen this topic before :S