Teleporters that you get sucked in to?

artgod · July 2013

Wondering if there's any way to create teleporters that characters get sucked in to.. or that are only one way. Closest thing that I can come up with is telporter that puts you very high and drops you so you can't reach it again. Is there any other ways of doing that type of thing?

ash4ll · July 2013

Tried to do simmilar, covering second teleporter with crates but it doesn't look good. It even gives me bad ratings.
There is something used in DMs studio that I didn't quite get that you could use for one-way teleporter.

Hope this helps.

mosby1 · July 2013

Right - the destination can be above you (out of reach) behind a fake ceiling for example, or under the floor. The DM's Studio has examples of both. I think the latter is much easier to do, but you might want the falling effect from the former in some cases.

There's no way to force-port a player really. You can spawn something on top of them which can cause them to appear at the respawn point. Or you can do a "black-out" effect to simulate a teleport (very hard to do though); but that's about it.

Depends what you are trying to do - but you can probably trick a player into clicking on an object which teleports them, if that helps.

artgod · July 2013

Next question - on the falling - what would be a suitable height to allow a player to fall without the fall being annoyingly high damage or killing them?

mee2002 · July 2013

Falling damage is pretty low. You need it just out of jumping interaction reach. 15-20 feet should do it provided there is nothing else around to jump off of.

*edit* On 2nd thought, I think all portals have a mandatory medium interaction length. In which case you just need it above standing interaction height.

nimmanu · July 2013

The best way to make a one-way teleporter is to use the invisible teleporter. Then on the end you DO want them to see/use, add a graphic to it. On the other end, if you set it up by 20, they don't fall far and they can NOT see it up in the air.

The biggest problem is that people use visible teleporters so there's something dangling above them.

If you want to make the one end of the portal mandatory, though, all you need to do is have walls appear around them or drop them into a pit so that the portal is the only way out. And again, use the invisible porter and just add a graphic to that end.

nimmanu · July 2013

artgod wrote: »

Next question - on the falling - what would be a suitable height to allow a player to fall without the fall being annoyingly high damage or killing them?

I set mine at 20. Since I use the invisible porter, I don't have to worry about them either getting injured (it does no damage at all to a level 6 char), nor seeing it and being all like... "yeah, dude, huge ball floating in midair for no apparent reason... lame".

Nor do I need to concern myself with false ceilings.

Teleporters that you get sucked in to?

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