Level Design Blocking Fluid Surface

[d3no]

I've searched on the forum and on other pages but didn't quite find a solution for my problem. I've spawned a fluidsurfaceinfo and it's representing lava. Now, I've made a tunnel that leads to a complex under it. What I want to do is block the fluid surface going through that brush, so that players can walk through the tunnel under the lava.
Here is the screenshot of the tunnel:

Is it possible to do that?
Thanks in advance.

 

[TheNoRanking]

I don't know how to do what you wanna do or if it's possible but what you could do is this. make 2 or 4 (or whatever needed) different fluidsurfaces around the tunnel and it would still look like 1.

 

[d3no]

Yes I did do that, and It looks really ugly. Well if there's no way to do it.. Then I'll just remove the underground complex. Still waiting for some more replies though

 

[Sambopukka]

Just a thought but maybe you can split the fluidsurface into different sections and then place them around the tunnel?

 

[YoYoBatty]

OMGZ! Is that a Super Mario Bros 64 map your making there?

 

[d3no]

Haha, yes it is, I'll post it soon, just needs some final tweaking. As for the fluid surface, I just quit on it, and removed the underlava complex. I've spent one whole day on trying to figure a nice way to block it off but failed. Thanks anyway for the help guys

 

[Marco]

You need to make a lava texture mask and use combiner + shader to make the fluid texture invisible for that spot. As for the lava volume, you need to deintersect a brush to cut off a hole in it for the tunnel.
Well.. It's quite hard to pull out and hard to explain, but it is possible and I don't have any examples here with me at the moment.

 

[YoYoBatty]

Trying using a blocking volume and just set clampfluidsurface(I think thats what its called) to true and the rest 2 false. I havn't tried it, but I think it works. Or better yet use a volume the has a an event and tag of "Myfluid" and due the same for the fluid surface.
So volume:
Tag: myfluid
Event: myfluid
fluidsurface:
Tag: myfluid
Event: myfluid

You can try the same with a blocking volune of clampfluidsurface doesn't work

 

[nath2009uk]

Doubt that will work, the thing that marco (Lolwut dots) said sounds promsing but won't the shoot / ripple effects still show if you have them set?

 

[Marco]

Doubt that will work, the thing that marco (Lolwut dots) said sounds promsing but won't the shoot / ripple effects still show if you have them set?

Effect comes from the volume itself, so if you set the LavaVolume properly it wont make any visible hit effects.

 

[Murphy]

It may or may not be easier to use an xProcMesh with a custom mesh instead of a FluidSurface.