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Advice needed: how to simulate crouching/kneeling
ajventer
Member, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 9 Arc User
It came to me last night that there is another famous movie about the same topic as Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which I parodied in my quest - Monty Cobra and the holy Ale.
That movie is, of course, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Which includes three awesome trap puzzles at the end - I think it would be wonderful to reproduce those puzzles in my quest.
The path of god and name of god puzzles are easy. But the first one... that's a problem - the solution in the movie was to go through on your knees. But there appears to be no crouch or kneel movement in this game. It's easy enough to build a foggy spider-webby tunnel filled with head-height traps, it may even be possible to set them so they can't be triggered if you're low enough - but if the player can't get low enough then there is no way for anybody but a TR to beat the puzzle.
That would be terribly unfair.
I'm stumped for ideas on how to implement this in a solvable, fair way - so I thought I'd ask the more experienced foundry editors if you can make suggestions - how would you implement "only the penitent man shall pass" ?
That movie is, of course, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Which includes three awesome trap puzzles at the end - I think it would be wonderful to reproduce those puzzles in my quest.
The path of god and name of god puzzles are easy. But the first one... that's a problem - the solution in the movie was to go through on your knees. But there appears to be no crouch or kneel movement in this game. It's easy enough to build a foggy spider-webby tunnel filled with head-height traps, it may even be possible to set them so they can't be triggered if you're low enough - but if the player can't get low enough then there is no way for anybody but a TR to beat the puzzle.
That would be terribly unfair.
I'm stumped for ideas on how to implement this in a solvable, fair way - so I thought I'd ask the more experienced foundry editors if you can make suggestions - how would you implement "only the penitent man shall pass" ?
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or maybe replace the elevated path with water, or an illusionary floor.
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Thanks for the tips so far, I'll be working on the new puzzle for a while yet and will leave the penitent man test for last so I can read any updates before I get to it. Would love to do it in the best way I can - the invisible floor or elevated pathway approaches have given me some ideas.
One approach I considered was to place a tunnel-entrance teleport as the test, the quest text would read "Walk through the narrow passage. The other end suspended really high would ensure death if you try to do that. Then place a floor based trigger at the base of it, just visible with a "crawl through the tunnel" interact which would move you safely to the next room (not sure how best to pull that one off - as far as I can see you can only use predefined teleport looks and cannot have a teleport on interact action - but there may be some work-arounds, like actually doing a map-change if you choose crawl since you can map-change from any object, I'll play around with this idea as well - for the moment, this puzzle is still being worked out in my head first.