Spawning on Lakeside (Falling down)

[Henk]

So I noticed on Lakeside that when you spawn, in the first half second it looks like you're falling down, also noticed it in gameplay footage of other people: http://renegade-x.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=75936

I opened the map in the SDK, and all objects are placed at the Z coordinate of around -5000, I'm guessing that's what causing this, your spawn points can of course be higher or lower than 0, but -5000 is a lot.

I guess the engine has 0,0,0 as the default spawn location, and then checks where your spawn point is and moves the cmaera over to there, normally you wouldn't notice it, but travelling from 0 to -5000 takes some time and that's why you get to see the "falling" when you spawn. That's what I'm thinking.

It's purely cosmetic, but changing it is easy, as long as you want to heighten everything on the map (which you probably will), and then rebuild lights, that's all.