Arbitrary rotation of fences?

[ReinierK]

Can't seem to get that working. I'ven seen fences rotated 45 degrees in the official maps and custom maps, but in my editor it doesn't work (all the 1 tile objects DO rotate though)...

Also the mirror functions don't work... Any thoughts?

--UPDATE--

Seems to work only in the ToTE editor, not in the default one.

[Franzy]

You see, fence is a 1x2 tile object, not 1x1 tile. You can not rotate it with the mouse, only by setting angle directly via properties.

[ReinierK]

Well, it is possible in the ToTE editor and I've seen it on NIval maps too, so I thought: it should be possible...

Maybe it's just a feature they've put in the ToTE editor, like so many others.

[Franzy]

Told you, WITH mouse you can rotate only 1x1 objects, but by setting angle directly in object's properties, you can rotate ANY object, including fences. This shold be done with caution, though.

However, it's HIGHLY unrecommended to rotate large active objects. And never ever rotate towns!

[ReinierK]

Hehe, okay I'll keep that in mind!

I like the ToTE editor more btw, since you can even make cutscenes with it!
Would you happen to know how I can get the "Dialog" window, so I can edit the lines spoken in the cutscenes?

[Franzy]

Dunno. I'm not a fan of cutscenes.

[fiur]

this may come handy also: http://home.online.no/~to-tho/Heroes5/t ... HoMM_V.zip

[ReinierK]

Sweet, I'll read it!
I think the possibilities of the editor are almost endless, you could basically mod a completely new game with it, granted that you also know how to model and skin objects...

My first map is 75% done (layout-wise) and I'll try to add an opening cutscene just to train myself... I might be able to release it for a quick test somewhere during next week, would be cool if you could give some suggestions here and there.

[Jonas]

The editor uses radians instead of degrees and what I understand is because objects rotates around the PossessionMarkerTile. That is why fences makes a "sweep" when they rotate.

Here is the formula to calculate degrees to radians:

radian = degrees * pi / 180

If you rotate a fence 90 degrees it will show 1.5708 (radians) in Rot in object property and if we uses the formula:
1.5708=90*3.1416/180

[Franzy]

Actually editor automaticaly converts grads to radians. It stores rotation in radians but you must enter it in grads.

[Asheera]

Note that some scripting functions like "CreateMonster" require degrees for the rotation parameter.