Buoyancy

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Stevie G

The cube should settle automatically - you just need to make sure that when in water it's upwards acceleration / force ( bouyancy ) is slightly higher than it's downwards acceleraton / force ( gravity ).

const TIMESTEP# = .005
const Gravity# = 9.8
global Bouyancy# = 10.2

[loop]

Acceleration = Acceleration - Gravity
If entityy( CUBE ) < WATERLEVEL
   Acceleration = Acceleration + Bouyancy
endif

translateentity CUBE, 0, Acceleration * TIMESTEP, 0

[loop]

Just vary the bouyancy factor to have objects surface quicker or slower etc..

Having it stop after a set amount of iterations won't look very good imo.

Stevie