water in my boat

Game Engine Game Engine Support and Discussion
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Hi all,

I have a boat on a river

I’ve made it behave what I wanted with python, this is ok

but the water mesh (a subdivided plane) goes through the boat mesh
So, when i look from above i see the water and not the bottom of the boat!
Of course if the camera goes under the level of the water I see the bottom of the boat.

Any idea?
what’s more I plan to use a script that creates waves (with vertex movement) (found on this forum). would it be a problem?
well, if a solution only works for flat water, i still take it!

Thanks for help.
Taiguen

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Put a flat floor in the boat above the water line is the only thing i can think off.

3

Have you tried increasing the “size” option in the actor menu? If that doesn’t work, maybe you could post a shot to give people more of an idea what could be wrong

4

Yeah i should have posted a photo first, well here is my problem:
http://www.geocities.com/tregmarc/pbblender.jpg

How to avoid this water in the boat (yes what you see is meant to be a boat :stuck_out_tongue: , will design it better later…)?
The boat goes slightly up and down that why sometimes there is water in somtimes not (the two screenshot)
yes I could put a floor but this not what i want:

I’m thinking of making a hole (in the water mesh) that would follow the boat.
If you have a solution tell me.

5

Have you tried increasing the “size” option in the actor menu? It’s probably a prob with the collision detection

6

there isn’t a way to do that though, you’ll have to redesign your boat

7

in real life boats dont lay that close to the water.

make it higher on the waves, with a lower body under the floor.

simple.

RonC

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You could just extrude the bottom piece, so it would still look like it was in the water, and you wouldn’t see the water going through the boat.