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What makes you think it's falling through anything?

I've tested it.

Interesting, did you manually place a flag at some altitude and watch it fall or something, not just seeing it appear on the ground?

The CTF flag object doesn't have network info to begin with. I don't think this problem has a solution unfortunately. It's a shame because on maps like DC Sea Rigs I would like to prevent the CTF flag from falling through the rigs, and it can't be done.

Classical Modder wrote:I hate BF1942's engine limitations. So frustrating.

You got that right, friend.

Time to make meme guns instead

Fun fact, since the flag just warps to the surface of the terrain, if you kill someone who has the flag while standing next to them but you are on the upper floor of a building you don't return the flag.

About flag radius, there is one for snatching it from the flagpole, and one for returning it. I had flags in Coral Sea, so it made the "return flag" bubble larger and lifted the seafloor a bit so it could be returned if it fell in the water. Worked out ok, only thing was the carriers didnt sink as they used to becasue they got stuck on the raised seafloor.

This is just an idea but if the flag object only interacts with the terrain, then changing the Mat ID of a mesh so that it matches a "terrain Mat ID" could in theory make the flag stay on the mesh no?

It's worth giving it a shot.

When the flag is dropped, it doesn't do any interacting. Take a look at dice::ref2::world::Flag::handleDrop. It gets the position of the player's "vehicle", then gets the terrain height and normal at that position. It then sets the flag position to 1.5 meters above the terrain. drop is not a very good description of what is happening.

Once the flag is there, it might be possible for it to interact. Maybe if you add some physics, and/or maybe add a floating bundle.

russ wrote:When the flag is dropped, it doesn't do any interacting. Take a look at dice::ref2::world::Flag::handleDrop. It gets the position of the player's "vehicle", then gets the terrain height and normal at that position. It then sets the flag position to 1.5 meters above the terrain. drop is not a very good description of what is happening.

Once the flag is there, it might be possible for it to interact. Maybe if you add some physics, and/or maybe add a floating bundle.

Adding physics is something I tried but to no avail. The Flag object is a different class of object which doesn't respond to normal geometry and response commands.

Crappy coding from EA yet again.