guys how can i make a water wave just like GLA mission 01 in generals??

i have already extracted the mission by C&C BIG extractor and didn't find out how they made it

Edited by user Wednesday, March 8, 2017 1:03:20 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

mix, hes not talking about waves on a beach, that sort of thing. Hes talking about the first GLA mission in vanilla Generals, where you destroy the dam and a wave of water goes through the valley destroying everything.

UTD, i'll take another look at the map myself and see if i can find how it works


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i think i've found it. Near the dam, there's an object called WaveGuideGLA01. i looked it up in the INIs [its in System.ini], and found that it does everything that you see, as far as the wave.

i couldn't find anything in the map's scripting to trigger this object though, or any script to make the wave follow the waypoint path seen going down river.

It might be that WaveGuideGLA01 is hard-coded to trigger if a nearby dam is destroyed, and to follow a path if it has exactly the right name [which is WaveGuide1, apparently]. Similar to how naming a path “Railroad” will make any nearby train follow it, without scripting it to do so. This is my best guess as to how the wave works.

One last thing, if you want to edit how the wave works, as in how fast it goes, how high it is, etc, i think you should be able to edit WaveGuideGLA01 using a map INI file. i don't know exactly how map INIs work though, so you would have to figure all that out.

Edited by user Monday, September 2, 2013 8:16:15 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

i might be wrong, but i think this is also done by the WaveGuideGLA01 object.
Here's some of the code for WaveGuideGLA01 from System.INI;


the PreferredHeight line makes me think that the wave creates it's own water area on the map

Edited by user Tuesday, September 3, 2013 1:47:14 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

i can try. ill probably make a few versions of the map, each with an different element of the flood stuffs missing. If the water doesn't work on one of these edited maps, whatever i deleted is what i need to look at.

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Looked at it some. i cloned the mission map, including ini's, so i could test it in skirmish. The wave didn't even work without me editing stuff. i tried adding a water zone, simply named “Water” and that didn't work.

Its possible that they added hard-code just for GLA mission 01, which means the wave seen in that mission is almost impossible to replicate, unless you made a replacement for that mission with the same name maybe. And then it wouldn't be useable in skirmish mode, only useable by going into the GLA campaign. Then you wouldn't be able to play the actual GLA mission.

Its also possible that you could add a water zone with a certain name, that would work with WaveGuideGLA01, but i don't know what that name would be.

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i did think of one way you might be able to make a wave of sorts though, although it would require a massive amount of scripting, and trial and error. And it might make it lag really bad if it did work.

Anyways, here's my idea; you could make a bunch of water zones, all the way down the river on your map. Make a script that starts a timer when your dam is destroyed. Then, each of your water zones would rise, one after the other, triggered by your timer.

For example;

and on, and on, until your wave goes off map. Each of those lines would be a separate script.

If the increase in water height has just the right vertical speed [controlled by the ratio of height to rise / time it takes to rise] it could blend together to look like a wave of water.
The times at which each water zone is triggered would have to be exact as well, to stay with the particle effects made by the WaveGuideGLA01 object.

Again, all of this could end up looking very glitchy, or lag the game, or both. My hope is that the water spray from Wave guide would hide the glitchy looks of the water rising. Don't know if it would lag bad or not.

And sorry for yet another wall of text, lol.

Edited by user Tuesday, September 3, 2013 9:10:21 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

hmm, well then. Still might be interesting to have a water zone making a river below the dam, and have the river slowly rise if the dam is destroyed. No mega-waves though :/