Animal dead in water

[kmarad]

Hoy,

I've been sniping boars and badgers from the safety of my boat.
But when they die, I can't get them from shallow waters :



If there is a single animal pixel over the water I can click it and lift them, but when they are entirely under water I can't find a way to pick them up.

I've tried to take them by swimming, and things like that, without success. Are there any tricks ?

[Audiosmurf]

You can use Lift on its minimap icon to pick it up.

[kmarad]

You can use Lift on its minimap icon to pick it up.

I love you

[vatas]

I may be making stuff up, but managing to click parts of the animal above water might also work.

[Actuarius]

You can use Lift on its minimap icon to pick it up.

I love you

I love you too.

PS: Animal sniping from boat is such a cheat......

[MagicManICT]

I may be making stuff up, but managing to click parts of the animal above water might also work.

If you can zoom in close enough and click on something actually above the water, it might. That's picking out pixels that you might not be seeing correctly, though, as far as the picking algorithms go.

[Granger]

A shame that loftar was unable to find an hour to make animal corpses float in shallows.

[MagicManICT]

A shame that loftar was unable to find an hour to make animal corpses float in shallows.

You mean like it used to be before everyone was complaining about "my suspension of disbelief" when animals walked on water?

[Granger]

No.

Corpses should float in shallows. Simply put in pseudocode

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while (animal dead AND more than 80% of mesh below water surface) {float corpse up a little}


This would make bigger creatures still lie dead on the (below water) ground (which would be no problem as they'll be big enough to stick out) but float any smaller ones so they're clickable.

But yea, you're right... it's better to specify requests as exact as possible to reduce the chance that we end up with yet another braindead band-aid.

[Ardennesss]

No.

Corpses should float in shallows. Simply put in pseudocode

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while (animal dead AND more than 80% of mesh below water surface) {float corpse up a little}


This would make bigger creatures still lie dead on the (below water) ground (which would be no problem as they'll be big enough to stick out) but float any smaller ones so they're clickable.

But yea, you're right... it's better to specify requests as exact as possible to reduce the chance that we end up with yet another braindead band-aid.

A couple clients already did this, just check the tile underneath gobs and move their Z axis up 5 units. Wasn't even a hard fix, think it's like 1 line.

Edit: was wrong, it's 4 lines.

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   if(type == Type.ANIMAL || type == Type.DANGANIMAL) {
          Tiler tl = glob.map.tiler(glob.map.gettile_safe(rc.floor(MCache.tilesz)));
          if (tl instanceof WaterTile)
         c.z += 5;
      }