Anyone know how fly works

[e.hough]

While playing around with a potion of fly I to try and cross over to some formerly unreachable areas, specifically in the bone castle map, the ground on the farside of the pond from the hut in the SW corner. Even after using a fly potion I cannot cross over to the far side, getting a the usual unreachable message.

To add to that I can't figure out how to rise up in the air - I don't see any obvious options for this, although I know I have seen npc'c with fly go up and hover in mid air.

[Echo]

Haven't done it myself but try holding shift when you're flying to do elevation.

[Silverquick]

I tried it, but I have NO idea how to adjust the altitude on it.

I can move around fine, but cannot or rather do not know how to adjust the altitude in order to make it work properly.

[Echo]

Shift+mousewheel? I don't know. That's my best guess!

[BW022]

I'm assuming it is similar to levitate. Small icon on the right of your main toolbar area. Click on it, then use the mouse to set your height off the ground.

[The Silver Santana]

I suspect that empty space isn't "empty space", it's an impassible barrier right now. You can't exist there, even flying, if there isn't solid land on some Z level.

[e.hough]

Originally posted by BW022:

I'm assuming it is similar to levitate. Small icon on the right of your main toolbar area. Click on it, then use the mouse to set your height off the ground.

Well, I didn't see any icon to the right of my main toolbar but I did figure out that if you click on the little stack of squares in the center of the compass so that they light up you get a movement grid outside of combat and a little circle floating in the air with arrows pointing up and/or down. (toggling the horizontal plane ON I think). You can then use the mouse wheel to raise or lower your 'point of view', allowing you to click on the grid up in the air to go up. You also get a movement 'ghost' just like you would in combat which is either blue if you can go up to that level or red if you can't.

There are some serious limitations here though. As Silver Santa pointed out you can't go to or through any area that is considered dead/impassible space by the game - which includes things like the pond I was playing around earlier. You are also limited in how high you can get - not sure of the exact count but it looks like your max height is 5-7 squares above whatever is below you, although there are some borders that are odd. For example, if I am in the courtyard of Bone Castle I can only go up about 4-5 squares before raising my POV turns my movement marker red, indicating I can't fly any higher. However if I move my PoV over to one of the towers I can raise it up to 5-7 squares above the tower. I don't fly directly up there though - instead I follow the path a non-flying character would have to take in order to climb up to the tower.

Its pretty clear that fly is extremely limited, mostly through the fact that the maps don't have full 3D space everywhere, only in certain areas.