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Also thanks for replying. I have no scripting experience outside GS1, and it is very frustrating coming against hurdles when there is nobody else willing to help out. It isn't likely I will solve this on my own.

I should have been clear that what I posted was the formula I based the water movement on. This is my original script.

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//#CLIENTSIDE
function onCreated() {
this.setimg("block.png");
}
function onActionPulled() {
    if (this.waterlevel == 0) {
  this.final = {9,39,47,39,47,27,55,27,55,47,9,47}; // x, y values of where the water starts filling
    this.current = {11,41,49,41,49,29,53,29,53,45,11,45}; // x, y values where the water is finished filling
    }
    else if (this.waterlevel == 1) {
  this.final = {11,41,49,41,49,29,53,29,53,45,11,45};
    this.current ={9,39,47,39,47,27,55,27,55,47,9,47}; 

    }
    this.time = 0;
    this.waterlevel = !this.waterlevel;
    setTimer(0.05);
}
function onTimeout() {
    for (this.a=0;this.a<=this.final.size();this.a++;) {
      this.distx = this.final[0+this.a] - this.current[0+this.a]; // finds the difference between the coordinates in both arrays
      this.disty = this.final[1+this.a] - this.current[1+this.a];
      this.movelength = (this.distx * this.distx + this.disty * this.disty) ^ 0.5; // finds out how many tiles away
      this.distx = this.distx / this.movelength;
      this.disty = this.disty / this.movelength;
      this.current[0+this.a] = this.current[0+this.a] + this.distx * 0.05; // move a step towards the final target
      this.current[1+this.a] = this.current[1+this.a] + this.disty * 0.05;
      showpoly(200,this.current);
      changeimgcolors 200,0,0,1,0.75;
      this.a++;
    }
    setTimer(0.05);
  }
}


I'm not sure what it is you're trying to accomplish here, as surely the water should rise irrespective of the player's position, unless this is inside a gani script?

What I do is store a tile width and height of the fill area, as well as a filled width and height, and calculate the showpoly x/y/position like so:

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function updatePoly() {
  temp.x = this.x + this.getWaterX();
  temp.y = this.y + this.getWaterY();
  this.showpoly(200, {temp.x, temp.y, temp.x + this.filledWidth, temp.y, temp.x + this.filledWidth, temp.y + this.filledHeight, temp.x, temp.y + this.filledHeight});
}

function getWaterX()
  return (this.waterWidth - this.filledWidth) / 2;


function getWaterY()
  return (this.waterHeight - this.filledHeight) / 2;


Maybe you can help me. I am not sure how you moved the showpoly, but I am using the following (tweaked a bit, this is an example).

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  toPlayerX = playerx - x;
  toPlayerY = playery - y;
  toPlayerLength = (toPlayerX * toPlayerX + toPlayerY * toPlayerY) ^ 0.5;
  toPlayerX = toPlayerX / toPlayerLength;
  toPlayerY = toPlayerY / toPlayerLength;
  x = x + toPlayerX * this.speed;
  y = y + toPlayerY * this.speed;

This has the showpoly moving in a very fluid manner. The problem is it never reaches the exact target coordinates (always off by a few hundredths of a decimal point). This causes some very weird visual glitches where the showpoly will 'bounce' between two coordinates. If I could control the increments (to 0.05 for example) that it moved that would solve my problem, but I don't really understand the math enough to do this. Can you help me out?

A combination of showpoly and setshape2.

I'm trying to replicate the rising water from Link to the Past. How did you accomplish this Thor? Was it a combination of showpoly and changing the zoom (is that even possible?). Or did you create an image and stretch it?

Late reply but someone sent me the editor, plus I got access to a Dev server to practice GS2.

You saying 2.2 isn't working or you can't download it? I could upload it to my dropbox when I get home.

Normal level editor is downloadable from the login server.

Doesn't work, and I've tried using FP4's patch posted on Graalians.

Normal level editor is downloadable from the login server.